Grandly
adv ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 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."
- 1 in a grand manner wordnet
Example
More examples"Mary gestured grandly at the marble staircase."
Etymology
From grand + -ly.
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