COLLECTEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collectedly mean? 

• COLLECTEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb COLLECTEDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a self-collected or self-possessed manner

  Familiarity information: COLLECTEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a self-collected or self-possessed manner

Synonyms:

collectedly; composedly

Context example:

he announced the death of his father collectedly

Pertainym:

collected (in full control of your faculties)

 Context examples 

This is what I said, the purport of it; but, as you may imagine, not spoken so collectedly or methodically as I have repeated it to you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And this is what I wished to have (laying his hand on my shoulder): this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon, I wanted her just as a change after that fierce ragout.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Indeed, Miss Woodhouse, (speaking more collectedly,) with the consciousness which I have of misconduct, very great misconduct, it is particularly consoling to me to know that those of my friends, whose good opinion is most worth preserving, are not disgusted to such a degree as to—I have not time for half that I could wish to say.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Fanny listened collectedly, even to the last-mentioned circumstance; nay, it seemed a relief to her worn mind to be at any certainty; and the words, then by this time it is all settled, passed internally, without more evidence of emotion than a faint blush.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had a letter from him herself, a few hurried happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent into Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor in Spithead; and when Crawford walked up with the newspaper in his hand, which he had hoped would bring the first tidings, he found her trembling with joy over this letter, and listening with a glowing, grateful countenance to the kind invitation which her uncle was most collectedly dictating in reply.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)