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obˈsequiously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an obsequious manner; † with ready compliance or eagerness to serve or please, dutifully (obs.); with undue submission, deference, or complaisance; in a servile, fawning, or abject way.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. iv. 191 To day, to day, implore obsequiously: Trust not to morrowes will. 1623Bingham Xenophon 21 What friends soeuer he chose..he vsed most obsequiously. 1701De Foe True-born Eng. 53 No subjects more obsequiously obey. 1736Shenstone To a Lady 7 Oct., When theatres for you the scenes forgo, And the box bows, obsequiously low. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xi. (1868) 122 ‘Won't you please to walk into the parlour, sir?’ said Chubb, obsequiously.
†b. With dutiful performance of funeral obsequies or due tokens of regard for the dead; in the manner of a mourner. (Cf. obsequious 1 b.) Obs.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 3 Whil'st I a-while obsequiously lament Th' vntimely fall of Vertuous Lancaster. 1608R. Johnson Seven Champions 60 There obsequiously to offer up unto the angry destinies many a bitter sighe and teare. |