单词 | lovelily |
释义 | lovelilyadv.ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adverb] lovelyeOE lovesomelyOE dearlyc1275 cherelya1375 loveredlyc1390 lovelilya1400 lovinglyc1425 flirtatiously1863 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] friendlyeOE wellOE friendfullyc1379 amiablya1400 lovelilya1400 peacefullya1400 friendlike?a1513 friendlilyc1550 chummily1934 matily1941 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 25582 (MED) Al luuelili þou vs lere Þe to luue. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 2292 Bot sir Arthure..Laughte hym vpe full louelyly with lordlyche knyghttez. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) xvii. 315 Thar capitane Tretyt yaim sa luflely [1487 St. John's Cambr. lusumly]. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 459 Efter be the burgesses of Edinburgh verie luuilelie, and honorablie was receiuet. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 245 Moreover, how lovelily do the Graces cling to one another. 2. In such a way as to stimulate love or admiration; beautifully. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adverb] lieflyc900 merelyeOE fairOE lovelya1375 featously1377 belliche1394 finelya1400 buttylly1496 lovelilya1500 well-favouredly1528 beautifully1538 beauteously1592 bonnily1595 love-likely1621 bonny1650 beautiful1767 a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 2250) (1926) 10364 (MED) For fayrer þen fir no mon may seke; þer leghtnes none so louelely. a1675 J. Lightfoot Wks. (1684) I. xiii. 1074 Their boughs and leaves curiously and lovelily intermingled and inwoven one with another. 1723 C. Mather Cœlestinus vi. 118 By turning all the Good Things of Earth into Sacrifices, a Conversation in Heaven will be most Lovelily Exemplifyed. 1764 C. Churchill Duellist ii. 23 Courage, a Youth of royal race, lovelily stern, possess'd a place. 1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos i. iii. 57 So lovelily the morning shone. 1897 Academy 27 Mar. 357/2 The ‘bowery loneliness’ of ‘Paradise Lost’ is less lovelily beautiful. 1937 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening Jrnl. 7 May 16/3 The group of three Lieder by Strauss, sung most lovelily by Mr. Crooks. 1977 E. Partridge You have Point There iii. 20 Lovelily, graciously, tenderly,..over a Europe so soon..to be plunged into war, the sun rose. 1992 ‘J. Gash’ Lies of Fair Ladies (1993) xxxiii. 244 Girls looking up from desks in bright sunlight, so lovelily young they pulled at your heart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1400 |
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