TAMELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tamely mean? 

• TAMELY (adverb)
  The adverb TAMELY has 1 sense:

1. in a tame manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a tame manner

Context example:

the labour movement allowed itself to be run out of power tamely

Pertainym:

tame (very restrained or quiet)

 Context examples 

This will be a regularly merry Christmas to me, with presents in the morning, you and letters in the afternoon, and a party at night, said Amy, as they alighted among the ruins of the old fort, and a flock of splendid peacocks came trooping about them, tamely waiting to be fed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I should not settle tamely down into being the forbearing party; I should assign you your share of labour, and compel you to accomplish it, or else it should be left undone: I should insist, also, on your keeping some of those drawling, half-insincere complaints hushed in your own breast.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)