adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] Without emotion; with indifference, stolidly.

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1831.  Crayons fr. Commons, 11.

        His tone was apathetically tame,
Midst all that wild indomitable flame.

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1842.  Emerson, in Corr. Carlyle, etc. I. 366. Love him or hate him or apathetically pass by him.

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1883.  Harper’s Mag., March, 563/1. These Protestants, who, now seated by the sides of their wives on drums or beer casks, are listening apathetically to the preacher.

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