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▪ I. cavalierly, a.|kævəˈlɪəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly1.]
Characteristic of a cavalier; knightly; haughty.
1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career II. vi. 88 With a cavalierly charm in the sullen brows she lifted. Ibid. III. xi. 196 Tuckham's figure was..neither cavalierly nor kingly. 1879― Egoist I. ix. 154 He had a cavalierly style.
▪ II. cavaˈlierly, adv.
[f. cavalier a. + -ly2.]
†1. Finely, magnificently, ‘bravely’. Obs.
1670R. Lassels Italy (1698) I. 24 A stately room, than which nothing can be more cavalierly furnished.
2. With haughty carelessness, disdainfully.
1718Free-thinker No. 76. 147 Pamphilus..engages in Friendships, and in Enmities, very Cavalierly. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man iv. i, You treat me very cavalierly. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey i. v. 10 He bowed cavalierly to Mr. Dallas. 1864H. Spencer Illustr. Univ. Progr. 377 Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution. |