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pestiferously

adv

Etymology

From pestiferous + -ly.

  1. borrowed from pestiferus — “bearing plague”
  2. suffixed as pestiferously — “pestiferous + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a pestiferous manner.

    • After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.

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