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adv. - Like an infant.

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Usage examples (5)
  • He cradled it, baby-wise, in his arms
  • But thou slumberest, in baby-wise sleeping in this woeful ark; midst the darkness of the brazen rivet thou shinest and in the swart gloom sent forth; thou heedest not...
  • And the first object that his baby-wise eyes settled upon with content, as if in it there might be a possible answer to the riddle, was Floss!
  • All this nonsense will make you think I am better, and indeed I am pretty well just now -- quite, however, confined to the bed -- except when lifted from it to the sofa...
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