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lavishly, adv.|ˈlævɪʃlɪ| [f. lavish a. + -ly2.] In a lavish manner.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxvi. 13 They lauishly [L. futiliter] force vpon God whatsoeuer comes at theire tunges ende. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 421 They could not but bee greatly offended, to see the Gentiles so lauishly to vse the thinges prohibited. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 57 Some about him haue too lauishly Wrested his meaning and Authoritie. 1631Gouge God's Arrows ii. vii. 142 What is violently or fraudulently gotten, will be lavishly spent. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 354 So lavishly insulting over the fall of so great a person. 1769Junius Lett. (1804) I. 29 Whether or no the man, who has praised him so lavishly, be himself deserving of praise. 1843Gallenga Italy, Past & Pr. (1848) I. p. xxvii, They shed blood lavishly. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 207 No praise of mine—..however lavishly it was squandered—could possibly raise you in your own esteem. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. vii. 33 If they took with one hand [they] gave lavishly with the other. |