irresolutely

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"[H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms."

Etymology tree English irresolute Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English irresolutely From irresolute + -ly.

more irresolutely (comparative) most irresolutely (superlative)

shilly-shally

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