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Definition of Luminously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luminously
Literary usage of Luminously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"The bay is beautiful—never did I see water so brilliantly, luminously turquoise—with
a dazzling band of white beach that is not white but cream, ..."
2. Letters to a Friend: On the State of Ireland, the Roman Catholic Question by Edward Augustus Kendall (1826)
"... and so luminously explains what is liberty of conscience, and at what point
civil liberty lays its restraint upon religious action. ..."
3. Life of Lord Jeffrey: With a Selection from His Correspondence by Henry Cockburn Cockburn, Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (1852)
"The argument is not good, nor the arrangements luminously applied. My meaning is
here, however, I believe—scattered and imperfect, to be sure, ..."
4. The Electrical Engineer (1888)
"... If this young man is such a bright young man, As to be too bright for me, Why,
what a very luminously bright young man, This bright young man must be. ..."
5. The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and by Wilfrid Philip Ward, ( (1912)
"On the other hand, while he thought of God as 'luminously self-evident,' and
while his sense of God's presence was through life, he tells us, never ' dimmed ..."
6. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1894)
"Mr. Chase no doubt finds this subject, like the topography of Galatia, " luminously
clear " ; but here again he has merely failed to go deep enough to ..."
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