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SUPERSTITIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superstitiously mean? 

SUPERSTITIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb SUPERSTITIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a superstitious mannerplay

  Familiarity information: SUPERSTITIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUPERSTITIOUSLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a superstitious manner

Context example:

superstitiously he refused to travel on Friday the 13th

Pertainym:

superstitious (showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance)


 Context examples 


I really did not expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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