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biddably

adv

Etymology

From biddable + -ly.

  1. derived from *gʷʰedʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bidjaną✻
  3. derived from *biddjan✻
  4. derived from bidden
  5. suffixed as biddable — “bid + able”
  6. suffixed as biddably — “biddable + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a biddable manner, compliantly.

    • "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel."
    • I thanked my host for the uncomfortable night which, but for his kindness, would have been far worse, and biddably leapt from the boat to the scow.

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