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ˈsqueamishly, adv.
[f. prec.]
†1. In a reserved or distant manner; coldly, disdainfully. Obs.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxi. 15 Not to taste Gods goodnes lyghtly, and as it were squeymishly. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Par Mespris, disdainefullye, squemishly. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. i. 8 Squemishly, frowningly, or skornefully shunning the ragged and tattered sleeue of any suppliant. 1647Hexham i, Squaimishly, verachtelick ofte onwaerdighlick.
2. Fastidiously, delicately, daintily.
1616B. Jonson Masques Wks. 911 Howsoeuer some may squemishly crie out. a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. 219 But I marvel at those expositors who are squemishly conceited against that opinion. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 498 If the plea of conscience was admitted..we should grow so squeamishly conscientious [etc.]. 1782T. Warton Rowley Enq. 70 The modern delicacy of the writer.., who thus squeamishly introduces this tale of Saxon perfidy. 1838Dickens Pickw. xxxi, If she had been less proudly and squeamishly brought up. 1845Campbell Lives Chancellors (1857) V. cx. 148 Bolingbroke..squeamishly says: ‘The first regulation..is decency’.
3. With a tendency to nausea or sickness.
1843Le Fevre Life Trav. Phys. iii. i. III. 89, I sought my cot,..rolled about for an hour rather squeamishly, and then fell asleep. |