Stony-heartedly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a stonyhearted manner; pitilessly.
"...their women refused to let their newly-born daughters have access to their milk, and do put them in any way to death: but this practice is not general through all the subdivisions of their tribe, though in several places they do thus stony-heartedly kill them."
Example
More examples"...their women refused to let their newly-born daughters have access to their milk, and do put them in any way to death: but this practice is not general through all the subdivisions of their tribe, though in several places they do thus stony-heartedly kill them."
Etymology
From stony-hearted + -ly.
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