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▪ I. loverly, a.1 and adv.|ˈlʌvəlɪ|
[f. lover1 + -ly.]
A. adj. Like a lover.
B. adv. In the manner of a lover.
1875J. Payn Halves xxii. II. 182, I only hushed her lips in loverly fashion. 1886G. Macdonald What's Mine's Mine xli. III. 101 Said the chief abruptly, ‘I want only herself!’ A very loverly way of speaking. 1887Stevenson Misadv. J. Nicholson ii. 4 The highest point of loverly exaltation. 1890Temple Bar Nov. 441 He murmured loverly something about ‘the light..of her jacinth hair’.
Comb.1885Stevenson Pr. Otto iii. 30 They made a loverly-looking couple.
Hence ˈloverliness.
1879G. Meredith Egoist I. 154 He fluted away in loverliness, forgetful of Crossjay.
▪ II. loverly, a.2
Also lovally.
Repr. a Cockney pronunc. of lovely a.
1907[see jellied a. 3]. 1937in Partridge Dict. Slang 497/2. 1956 Lerner & Loewe My Fair Lady (1958) i. i. 13 All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air;..Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? 1968J. Wainwright Web of Silence 28 He 'ad the ackers—believe me—wiv a car like that... A loverly job, it was. |