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UNFEIGNEDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unfeignedly mean?
• UNFEIGNEDLY (adverb)
The adverb UNFEIGNEDLY has 1 sense:
1. with sincerity; without pretense
Familiarity information: UNFEIGNEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With sincerity; without pretense
Synonyms:
Context example:
we are truly sorry for the inconvenience
Pertainym:
unfeigned (not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed)
Context examples
She did unfeignedly and unequivocally regret the inferiority of her own playing and singing.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In the lower bunk lay Louis, grossly fat and warm and sweaty, asleep unfeignedly and sleeping laboriously.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It is my fate, said Mr. Micawber, unfeignedly sobbing, but doing even that, with a shadow of the old expression of doing something genteel; it is my fate, gentlemen, that the finer feelings of our nature have become reproaches to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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