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Definition of Superlatively
1. Adverb. To a superlative degree.
Definition of Superlatively
1. Adverb. In a superlative manner; in the greatest possible way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superlatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superlatively
Literary usage of Superlatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the by Robert Burns (1898)
"... I shall venerate your name, court your notice, and be superlatively ambitious
of your friendship, spite of all that carelessness you show for mine, ..."
2. The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar : a by Richard Stockton Field (1849)
"... and the people, as Logan says in one of his letters to Perm, had become " so
superlatively honest," that there was little business for the Courts to do; ..."
3. The Paraná: With Incidents of the Paraguayan War, and South American by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1868)
"... at Sight of it — Its " Distracting Regularity " — superlatively Parallel and
Quadrilateral — Description of the Palace — Its Surroundings — Louis Quinze ..."
4. The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1801)
"... arc deficient in graceful contour, yet their effects of colouring, and light
and shade, are superlatively fine* . ..."
5. Disraeli and His Day by William Fraser (1891)
"... in my mind the wonderful similarity in your mental elements: but Pitt, though
superlatively great, could not have written 'Vivian Grey' or 'Sybil. ..."
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