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Definition of Lavishly
1. Adverb. In a wasteful manner. "The United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"
2. Adverb. In a rich and lavish manner. "Lavishly decorated"
Definition of Lavishly
1. adv. In a lavish manner.
Definition of Lavishly
1. Adverb. In a lavish manner, expending profusely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lavishly
1. lavish [adv] - See also: lavish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavishly
Literary usage of Lavishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... disinterestedly to oblige a friend, but partly also, perhaps, from considering
what a high price he could now pay for praise, and how lavishly it would ..."
2. Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History by William Stubbs (1890)
"The funds arising from the confiscated estates of the Norman nobles and the exiled
bishops enabled him to spend lavishly, to hoard also largely, ..."
3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1883)
"1 All these papers are lavishly illustrated with wood cuts of the choicest kind,
offering to the lovers of art a treat to the eyes us well as the mind. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"145. residence of Urbino, built by Federigo П., even now one of the most magnificent
palaces in Italy, was lavishly adorned with works of art of every ..."
5. The Conquest of Canada by George Warburton (1849)
"Soot, the juices of herbs having a green, yellow, or vermilion tint, mixed with
oil and grease, are lavishly employed upon their skin to adorn it and exists ..."
6. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... barons, and knights, who were tenants of the king in chief, and were there
present in person, had expended their money so lavishly to no purpose, ..."
7. Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career by Charles Grenfill Washburn (1916)
"... lavishly spent by the founders of the Republican party. And it is but a further
vindication of the principles for which the Republican party so long ..."
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