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Definition of Repellently
1. Adverb. In a repellent manner. "Repellently fat"
Definition of Repellently
1. Adverb. In a repelling manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Repellently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repellently
Literary usage of Repellently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hard Times: A Novel by Charles Dickens (1854)
"repellently and stunningly clever ? I see, by your meaning smile, you think not.
You have poured balm into my anxious soul. As to age, now. Forty ? ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"This was due in part to his comparative youth, though none of the department were
repellently old; in part to his sympathetic willingness to give help and ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"His Proposals for erecting a county work-house may, to modern ideas, seem
repellently brutal; to his own age, they seemed sentimentally humane. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"There is nothing dry or repellently technical about the treatment, which is broad,
profoundly ethical, and aglow with elevated feeling. ..."
5. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... in which Moscherosch obviously draws from his own experiences, gives a
repellently realistic picture of the demoralisation of the land during the Thirty ..."
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