Word Meanings - CONSTRAINEDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.

Related words: (words related to CONSTRAINEDLY)

• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CONSTRAINT
  The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
• CONSTRAINABLE
  Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.
• COMPULSION
  The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak.
• CONSTRAINER
  One who constrains.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• CONSTRAINEDLY
  By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• HOOKER
  1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
• CONSTRAIN
  constringere; con- + stringere to draw tight. See Strain, and. cf. 1. To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or con He binds in hains The droway prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with old. Dryden.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• UNCONSTRAINT
  Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.