Definition of Delicately

1. Adverb. In a delicate manner. "Her fine drawn body"

Exact synonyms: Exquisitely, Fine, Finely
Partainyms: Delicate, Exquisite

Definition of Delicately

1. adv. In a delicate manner.

Definition of Delicately

1. Adverb. In a delicate manner; exquisitely. ¹

2. Adverb. Tactfully. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Delicately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delicately

deliberative
deliberatively
deliberativeness
deliberatives
deliberator
deliberators
delible
delibly
delibration
delibrations
delicacies
delicacy
delicata
delicatas
delicate
delicately (current term)
delicateness
delicates
delicatessen
delicatessen food
delicatessens
delice
delicense
delices
deliciate
deliciated
deliciates
deliciating
delicious
deliciously

Literary usage of Delicately

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Conservation of Energy: Being an Elementary Treatise on Energy and Its Laws by Balfour Stewart (1874)
"For although it is undoubtedly a delicately-constructed machine, yet a rifle does not represent the same surpassing delicacy as that, for instance, ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The pigmente are blue, green, gray, and a very rich orange tending to red, ana are all thickly but very delicately put on ; these pieces are of extreme ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... the face of roseate hue, 4(1 F and of true John Bullish type, but with delicately-shaped nose; a clear and open glance; the mouth finely curved, ..."

4. King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care by Gregory, Alfred, Henry Sweet (1871)
"But when day approaches, he sings more finely and delicately. So every wise teacher must preach open and clear doctrine to the dark minds, ..."

5. Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of by Horace Wemyss Smith (1880)
"... AFTERWARDS ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF DR GRIFFITH, BISHOP-ELECT OF VIRGINIA—A MEMOIR OF DR. GRIFFITH—THE CONVENTION delicately SITUATED IN REGARD TO BISHOP ..."

6. The Divine Plan of the Agesby Charles Taze Russell by Charles Taze Russell (2000)
"It is well, furthermore, to remember that the same facts may be more or less delicately stated in any language; and that while the translators of the Bible ..."

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