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Elizabethanly

Elizabethanly adverb: in an Elizabethan manner.

Adverb

Elizabethanly (comparative more Elizabethanly, superlative most Elizabethanly)

  1. In an Elizabethan manner.
    • It might be Elizabethanly rendered, “How absolute the knave is.”1932 April, Paul Shorey, “Robert Burton’s “Philosophaster,” with an English Translation of the Same, Together with His Other Minor Writings in Prose and Verse. By Paul Jordan-Smith. […]”, in...
    • A terrific energy speaks out in fierce social criticism directed against perjurers, extortioners and unjust, swindling tax-gatherers, bargainers and lovers of simony; against hazarders and dicers, ‘kirk-chatterers’, slanderers and backbiters; against women, with their moods and hypocrisies, their...1950, A[rthur] P[ercival] Rossiter, “Gothic Drama”, in English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans: Its Background, Origins and Developments, London: Hutchinson’s University Library, page 68

Forms of Elizabethanly

comparativemore Elizabethanly
superlativemost Elizabethanly

Origin of Elizabethanly

From Elizabethan + -ly.

Questions about Elizabethanly

What does Elizabethanly mean?
Elizabethanly means in an Elizabethan manner.
What part of speech is Elizabethanly?
Elizabethanly is an adverb.

Words near Elizabethanly in the dictionary

  1. Elizabethanisms
  2. elizabethanize
  3. elizabethanized
  4. elizabethanizes
  5. elizabethanizing
  6. Elizabethanly
  7. Elizabethanness
  8. Elizabethans
  9. Elizabethian
  10. Elizabethiana
  11. Elizabeths

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