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gospelly

gospelly adjective: resembling gospel music.

Adjective

gospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)

  1. Resembling gospel music
    • When we reach the piano, Ormus sits down and starts to play a slow, haunting gospelly tune.2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, published 2000, page 539

Adverb

gospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)

  1. (archaic) In the manner of the Gospel
    • The Ceremonies cease, but yet the Creede / Contained therein, continues gospelly, / That make my feeble Spirits will grow frim.1698, Edward Taylor, “Meditation 25”, in The Poems of Edward Taylor, UNC, published 1989, →ISBN, page 129

Forms of gospelly

Adjective
comparativemore gospelly
superlativemost gospelly
Adverb
comparativemore gospelly
superlativemost gospelly

Origin of gospelly

From gospel + -y.

Questions about gospelly

What does gospelly mean?
Gospelly means resembling gospel music.
What part of speech is gospelly?
Gospelly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near gospelly in the dictionary

  1. gospellize
  2. gospellized
  3. gospellizes
  4. gospellizing
  5. gospells
  6. gospelly
  7. gospelmonger
  8. gospelmongers
  9. gospelphile
  10. gospelphiles
  11. gospels

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