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Definition of Delicately
1. Adverb. In a delicate manner. "Her fine drawn body"
Definition of Delicately
1. adv. In a delicate manner.
Definition of Delicately
1. Adverb. In a delicate manner; exquisitely. ¹
2. Adverb. Tactfully. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Delicately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delicately
Literary usage of Delicately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conservation of Energy: Being an Elementary Treatise on Energy and Its Laws by Balfour Stewart (1874)
"For although it is undoubtedly a delicately-constructed machine, yet a rifle does
not represent the same surpassing delicacy as that, for instance, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The pigmente are blue, green, gray, and a very rich orange tending to red, ana
are all thickly but very delicately put on ; these pieces are of extreme ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... the face of roseate hue, 4(1 F and of true John Bullish type, but with
delicately-shaped nose; a clear and open glance; the mouth finely curved, ..."
4. King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care by Gregory, Alfred, Henry Sweet (1871)
"But when day approaches, he sings more finely and delicately. So every wise
teacher must preach open and clear doctrine to the dark minds, ..."
5. Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of by Horace Wemyss Smith (1880)
"... AFTERWARDS ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF DR GRIFFITH, BISHOP-ELECT OF VIRGINIA—A
MEMOIR OF DR. GRIFFITH—THE CONVENTION delicately SITUATED IN REGARD TO BISHOP ..."
6. The Divine Plan of the Agesby Charles Taze Russell by Charles Taze Russell (2000)
"It is well, furthermore, to remember that the same facts may be more or less
delicately stated in any language; and that while the translators of the Bible ..."
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