Bubonically

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In terms of, or by means of, bubonic plague. not-comparable

    "Strong-willed and good in a crisis, she was exactly the girl Cornel Wilde needed to lance his plague boil and pull him through when the population of London was being bubonically decimated."

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"Strong-willed and good in a crisis, she was exactly the girl Cornel Wilde needed to lance his plague boil and pull him through when the population of London was being bubonically decimated."

Etymology

From bubonic + -ally.

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