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Definition of Ornately
1. Adverb. In an ornate manner. "The cradle was ornately carved"
Definition of Ornately
1. adv. In an ornate manner.
Definition of Ornately
1. Adverb. In an ornate manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ornately
1. ornate [adv] - See also: ornate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornately
Literary usage of Ornately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"“Emory started remote-emoting at me then, very discreetly and ornately,” and ...
really, of what she was so discreetly and ornately getting herself into. ..."
2. Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical by Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1860)
"The marvel of ornately-carved trunks and well-balanced fronds soon palls on the
sense; and the prevalence of those spiky rectilinear forms in the scene ..."
3. Egypt by Eva Ambros (2001)
"In the immediate vicinity is the Mausoleum of Muha mined 'Alî, whose family was
laid to rest here, along with their dependants, in ornately decorated marble ..."
4. The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries edited by Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson (1894)
"... and silver pommel, well and ornately covered, and a fair belt attached, so
that the King may have it at York in order to decorate Alexander, ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"In this, A rhetorician speaks ornately and copiously, ornately and copiously are
the modes of the predicate. ..."
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