prodigally

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In the troupe’s farewell this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a longtime home for the company, it presents, prodigally, three different programs in four performances only.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

The Army & Navy hold that there is such a case: >The prodigally democratic U.S. had very few real secrets left to keep when it went to war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Official 19th century buildings, we learned, were extravagances, inhumanly axial, prodigally wasteful and blind to the technology of their age.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were not indeed a part of our aboriginal endowment: Man, as he emerged, was not prodigally equipped to master the infinite diversity of his environment.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is a lady bountiful, who gives As prodigally as nature, and she asks No gifts from you, but gets them anyway, Because all spirits pour themselves to her.

From Domesday Book by Masters, Edgar Lee