adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a jejune manner; meagerly, insipidly.

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1615.  Sir E. Hoby, Curry-Combe for a Coxe-Combe, ii. 100. The Knight saw how Ieiunely his Aduersary pleaded for Purgatory.

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1665.  Boyle, New Exp. Cold, Prel. Wks. 1772, II. 475. Other learned writers … have handled it exceedingly jejunely.

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1805.  Syd. Smith, Elem. Sk. Mor. Philos. (1850), 170.

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1850.  Sir H. Taylor, Sicil. Summer, I. ii. And teach us, not jejunely what we are, But what we may be when the Parian block Yields to the hand of Phidias.

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