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ˈvenerably, adv.
[f. as prec.]
In a venerable manner; so as to be venerable; † with veneration.
c1610Women Saints (1886) 180 Whose happie passage the Greeke and Latine Churche do venerablie recorde..[on] the fift of August. 1693Dryden Juvenal's Satires vi. 31 So venerably Ancient is the Sin. 1699Garth Dispens. 8 Each Faculty in Blandishments they lull, Aspiring to be venerably dull. 1753Hanway Trav. iii. xxx. (1762) I. 130 The years that had rendered his beard so venerably hoary. 1791Huddesford Salmagundi 135 Might I but..See thee in scarlet robe encase thy fur, And at St. Mary's venerably purr! 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xxxi, His mansion and his sepulchre; both plain And venerably simple. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 58 It [the beard] had become venerably red. |