Silkenly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a silken manner.

    "This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it."

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"This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it."

Etymology

From silken + -ly.

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