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Definition of Elegantly

1. Adverb. With elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner. "The room was elegantly decorated"

2. Adverb. In a gracefully elegant manner. "The members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do"

Definition of Elegantly

1. adv. In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

Definition of Elegantly

1. Adverb. gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style. ¹

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Definition of Elegantly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegantly

eleemosynary eleemosynous eleet elegance elegances elegancies elegancy elegant elegant Habenaria elegant brodiaea

elegant cat's ears elegant crested tinamou elegant crested tinamous elegant variation elegantin elegantly (current term) elegiac elegiac stanza elegiacal elegiacally

elegiack elegiacs elegiast elegiasts elegies elegiographer elegiographers elegise elegised elegises

Literary usage of Elegantly

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

1. The Olynthiac, and Other Public Orations of Demosthenes by Demosthenes (1852)
"POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD, complete, with Explanatory Notes nnd Index, and an Essay on the Lite, Writings, and Genius of Homer, elegantly printed, frontispieces, ..."

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888)
"We found ourselves very elegantly entertained at her house in the Adelphi, where I have passed many a pleasing hour with him " who gladdened life. ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"kind, elegantly and plainly written, quarto, calf gilt, gilt edges, in fine preservation." Can you give me any information respecting this MS. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"(id. The Sextuple Alliance, consisting of Odes and other Poem* on the Exile and An Essay on Baptism; being an In- Circle of Friend«. elegantly printed in ..."

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