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sterlingly

sterlingly adverb: finely; excellently; with high quality.

Adverb

sterlingly (comparative more sterlingly, superlative most sterlingly)

  1. Finely; excellently; with high quality.
    • Of all the books which have been published on India, this, perhaps, is the most sterlingly valuable.1837, advertisement in The Foreign Quarterly Review (page 532)

Forms of sterlingly

comparativemore sterlingly
superlativemost sterlingly

Origin of sterlingly

From sterling + -ly.

Questions about sterlingly

What does sterlingly mean?
Sterlingly means finely; excellently; with high quality.
What part of speech is sterlingly?
Sterlingly is an adverb.

Words near sterlingly in the dictionary

  1. Sterling Junction
  2. Sterling professor
  3. Sterling professors
  4. sterling silver
  5. sterlinghillite
  6. sterlingly
  7. sterlingness
  8. sterlings
  9. Sterlitamak
  10. stern
  11. stern chase

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