dilettantelyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From dilettante +‎ -ly.

副詞

dilettantely (comparative more dilettantely, superlative most dilettantely)

1. In the manner of a dilettante.
   • 1876 January 15, J. R. P., “After Waiting. A Canadian Story.”, in The Bristol Mercury, volume LXXXVII, number 4476, chapter III (He who can wait in all things, master is of Fate), page 6:

     The meal was a silent one, neither eating, but dilettantely sipping the tea, and shortly both arose.

   • 1923 February 8, “The Fool’s Revenge”, in Variety, volume LXIX, number 12, New York, N.Y., page 19:

     It was played with moderate success 20 years ago by Edwin Booth, although presented dilettantely off and on many years preceding.

   • 1929, Florence Mateer, “Babette, Trouble-Maker”, in Just Normal Children, New York, N.Y.; London: D. Appleton and Company, page 257:

     For four generations the men had been educated to a profession which was more or less dilettantely pursued, while a sufficient income from herds and horses made life a series of gracious gestures.

   • 1981, Faust, the First Part, page 142:

     I must dilettantely raise the curtain.

   • 1994, Robert Crossley, “Lifting the Curtain, 1909–1912”, in Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 92:

     “I am living a very full life, but doing everything rather dilettantely,” he told himself at year’s end.

   • 1997, Phillip Asonmwonriri, Africanite Foundation Emergency Pamphlet: Tells about Asonmwonriri’s Brutal Suppression in the West, Organization of Africanite Foundation, →ISBN, pages 10–11:

     Typical examples are the attitudes of the so-called Green Party and thic several Environmental Groups and other similar groups who, all dilettantely in a façade protest, humiliated nature in Lambach Au shamefully.

   • 1999, Anat Feinberg, “Toward a Dangerous Theatre”, in Embodied Memory: The Theatre of George Tabori, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 76:

     And he readily admitted to Maria Sommer that he realized how complex and demanding acting was only when he “dilettantely” took upon himself the role of Lobkowitz at the premiere of his own Mein Kampfin 1987.

   • 2015, Joe Ziemer, Mickey Newbury: Crystal & Stone, second edition, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     (Another example of apocryphal information getting passed along dilettantely until it becomes the truth.)