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dimly, adv.|ˈdɪmlɪ|
In 3 dimluker (compar.), 4–5 dymly.
[repr. OE. type *dimlíce, from dimlíc adj. dim, obscure: cf. -ly2.]
In a dim manner; in or with a dim light; obscurely; somewhat darkly; faintly, indistinctly.
a1225Ancr. R. 210 Heo wolden..iðe deofles seruise dimluker bemen. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 375 Dymly bisoȝten, Þat þat penaunce plesed him. a1400–50Alexander 718 Þan Anec..Dryvez up a dede voyce, and dymly he spekes. 1538Starkey England ii. iii. 206 As Sayn Poule sayth dymely, hyt ys the pedagoge of Chryst. 1667Milton P.L. v. 157 To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works. 1712Addison Spect. No. 265 ⁋9 A Fire burns dimly..in the Light of the Sun. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 49 The figures looked dimly down like gods out of a mysterious sky. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxvi. 49 Perish who earth's hid veins first labour'd dimly to quarry. 1885Spectator 8 Aug. 1041/1 This was dimly felt at the time and has been more distinctly recognised since.
b. Comb., as dimly-labouring, dimly-lit.
1863I. Williams Baptistery ii. xxiii. (1874) 75 Like the dimly-labouring moon. 1880Ouida Moths xviii, Dimly-lit chambers. |