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Definition of Obsequiously
1. Adverb. In an obsequious manner. "She acts obsequiously toward her boss"
Definition of Obsequiously
1. adv. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly.
Definition of Obsequiously
1. Adverb. In an obsequious manner. ¹
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Definition of Obsequiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obsequiously
Literary usage of Obsequiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. William George Ward and the Catholic Revival by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1893)
"Fancy if there were a body of Englishmen who followed obsequiously the Lord Mayor
of London as a matter of conscience! And they think much worse of the Pope ..."
2. A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson (1919)
"... but, miza me, .when het up de worst blood det eben is in Ingin tribes," he
bowed obsequiously and said, "I am Caleb, and dis is Lucy, on de floor. ..."
3. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"To sidle about a person," to attend him obsequiously. SI DAYS f Side-ways, on
one sl(*e- SIDUS, ) SIE, A drop. AS scon, to distil. "There's nut a sie left. ..."
4. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1879)
"... and time-serving President, with all his learning and experience, was successively
the dupe of Margaret and of Alva, whom he so obsequiously courted, ..."
5. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1831)
"... for God and the demons had peculiarly distinguished me water, another brought
a calabash to receive it, and a third very obsequiously washed my feet. ..."
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