In a dejected manner; sadly, without hope, or in a way showing discouragement.
Deject plus the adverbial suffix '-ly.' This rare variant appears occasionally instead of 'dejectedly,' creating an alternative adverbial form.
This is almost a poetic variant of 'dejectedly'—it appears in older literature when writers wanted something slightly shorter or different-sounding.
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