Grandly

adv

adv ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a grand manner.

    "This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]"

  2. 2
    To the greatest extent. rare

    "But whether or not Sumner was the most typical man of his native commonwealth, he certainly does take a representative place on the bede-roll of her great sons. And on a wider field he does especially and grandly represent the Puritan spirit and the Pilgrim idea, and so the peculiar ethical and political idea of our whole nation."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a grand manner wordnet

Example

More examples

"Mary gestured grandly at the marble staircase."

Etymology

From grand + -ly.

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