Definition of "contractedly" [contractedly]

• In a contracted manner. (adverb)

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• "It is not necessary, even in the cold atmosphere of this world, to become contractedly selfish; cold expands noble natures as it does water ...."
• "_Chez_ is nowhere used; but in the southern part _utche_ or _iche_, is sometimes spoken contractedly _che_."
• "On that Sunday night he had wandered wild, incoherently ranging and throbbing, but this became the law of his next days as well, since he lacked more than ever all other resort or refuge and had nowhere to carry, to deposit, or contractedly let loose and lock up, as it were, his swollen consciousness, which fairly split in twain the raw shell of his sordid little boarding-place."