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sustainedly

  • a word derived from sustain.
    sustain
    verb (used with object)
    to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
  • a word derived from sustained.
    sustained
    adjective
    kept in process or continued over time; continuous.

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The journal outlines why widespread testing, technology-aided contact tracing, case isolation and the quarantining of contacts will continue to be essential to sustainedly suppress further outbreaks.

From Nature ● May 13, 2020

It may be too sustainedly loud, and the infrequent and short passages piano are rather breathing-spells than contrasting awe, but frequently this work 427 shows a very magnificence of power and exaltation.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

And the crowds which regularly attend musical programs of a sustainedly high character in many cities, winter and summer, are evidence of how widespread and eager is appreciation of the fine arts.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

I think Beethoven is rather spasmodically, than sustainedly, grand.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis

Now this is all pleasant exceedingly, but to enjoy this sort of thing sustainedly one should not have an English constitution.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various