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Definition of Mutely
1. Adverb. Without speaking. "He sat mutely next to her"
Definition of Mutely
1. adv. Without uttering words or sounds; in a mute manner; silently.
Definition of Mutely
1. Adverb. In a mute manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mutely
1. mute [adv] - See also: mute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutely
Literary usage of Mutely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"God makes a silence through you all, His dews drop mutely on the hill : His cloud
above it resteth still, Though on its slope men toil and reap ! ..."
2. The Maidens of the Rocks by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1898)
"... melancholy eyes in which long habit of uniform glances had abolished the
mobility of investigation; mutely devout pitiful eyes where the forms of ..."
3. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... gloomy eyes; the livid paleness that discolored her compressed lips ; the
spasms that shook her firm, commanding form, mutely expressing in the divine ..."
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