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vitreously

vitreously adverb: in a vitreous manner.

Adverb

vitreously (not comparable)

  1. In a vitreous manner.
    • The cosmopolitan turned a mild glance upon the speaker, who, now occupying the chair opposite him, sat there purely and coldly radiant as a prism. It seemed as if one could almost hear him vitreously chime and ring.1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Origin of vitreously

From vitreous + -ly.

Questions about vitreously

What does vitreously mean?
Vitreously means in a vitreous manner.
What part of speech is vitreously?
Vitreously is an adverb.

Words near vitreously in the dictionary

  1. vitreous jellies
  2. vitreous jelly
  3. vitreous touch syndrome
  4. vitreouses
  5. vitreouslike
  6. vitreously
  7. vitreousness
  8. vitrescence
  9. vitrescency
  10. vitrescent
  11. vitrescible

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