Stony-heartedly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 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

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"...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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