pedetentously

pedetentously

English

Etymology

pedetentous +‎ -ly

Adverb

pedetentously (comparative more pedetentously, superlative most pedetentously)

1. (formal, rare) In a pedetentous fashion; cautiously; gradually.
   • 2012, S. Ross, Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science, page 29

     I ask you who you are, and what are you riving at Dr. W. I am advancing pedetentously.

   • 1887, E. S. Roberts., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, page 534

     With slow and cautious steps under the auspices of the Berlin. Academy, is now moving on, not pedetentously (to borrow a word coined by Sydney Smith), but by...

   • 1911, James Ira Deese Miller, A Guide into the South, (Quotation 6)

     Known my feelings for she played dolente (dolefully) an erotica (a love song), singing of the whispering tentaculifera as they stealthily and pedetentously.