"brokenly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From broken + -ly.",
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          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Intemperence, page 155:",
          "text": "—Something I said,\nBut faint and brokenly of former days,\nWhen in the paths of science and of hope,\nWe walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal\nOf vacant laughter from those bloated lips,\nAnd the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd\nFor friendship's grasp.",
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          "ref": "1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 125:",
          "text": "It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.",
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        "In a broken manner."
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          "ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:",
          "text": "It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.",
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          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it.",
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        "with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly."
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        "(Of speech) with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly."
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          "text": "—Something I said,\nBut faint and brokenly of former days,\nWhen in the paths of science and of hope,\nWe walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal\nOf vacant laughter from those bloated lips,\nAnd the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd\nFor friendship's grasp.",
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          "text": "It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.",
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        "In a broken manner."
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