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Slowly

//ˈsləʊli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    At a slow pace.

    "Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer."

Adverb
  1. 1
    without speed (‘slow’ is sometimes used informally for ‘slowly’) wordnet
  2. 2
    in music wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English slowly, slowli, slouli, slowliche, from Old English slāwlīċe (“slowly; sluggishly”), equivalent to slow + -ly. Compare Old Norse slæliga, sljóliga.

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