Definition of Singularly

1. Adverb. In a singular manner or to a singular degree. "Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone"

Partainyms: Singular

Definition of Singularly

1. adv. In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others.

Definition of Singularly

1. Adverb. In a singular manner. ¹

2. Adverb. Strangely; oddly. ¹

3. Adverb. So as to express one, or the singular number. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Singularly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Singularly

singular they
singular value decomposition
singulare tantum
singularia tantum
singularise
singularist
singularists
singularitarian
singularitarians
singularities
singularity
singularize
singularized
singularizes
singularizing
singularly (current term)
singularness
singulars
singulative
singulatively
singulatives
singult
singultation
singultous
singults
singultus
sinh
sinhalite
sinhs
sinical

Literary usage of Singularly

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

1. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"It does not appear so rich as the smaller church, but boasts of a little organ, which sent forth singularly inharmonious cries. ..."

2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"... As might be guessed, they are not the productions of a literary master; yet they confirm our opinion of his singularly keen and stringent personality. ..."

3. The Lancet (1842)
"singularly enough, a few days afterwards the complaints were almost universal in the House of Commons (and we believe Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET was a ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Places or persons struck with lightning were considered by the ancients with pious horror, as singularly devoted to the wrath of Hea- ven. ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"As a picture of New England village life it is singularly unfortunate, and still more so as a picture of village life in the valley of the Connecticut, ..."

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