demurelyadv.
/dɪˈmjʊəli/ a. In a demure manner; gravely, modestly, meekly, quietly; with a gravity, meekness, or modesty that is affected or unnatural.
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the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adverb]
lowlyc1350
demurelyc1400
lowlily1415
simplyc1430
murely1474
littlya1500
modestly1569
unpretendingly1701
unambitiously1746
meeverly1757
unpresumptuously1758
unostentatiously1771
unconceitedly1812
unpretentiously1852
unassertively1981
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adverb]
highlyOE
deeplyc1300
solemnlya1325
sadlya1375
soberly1382
demurelyc1400
sadc1400
seriouslyc1425
solemnya1470
murely1474
solemnedlyc1480
solenny1480
in (good, sober, serious) sadness1545
gravely1553
staidly1571
solemniouslya1578
solidly1632
in sad earnest1637
ponderously1637
in jest-earnest1642
in all seriousness1679
joking apart1745
unhumorously1768
solidly1799
in sober earnest1836
mirthlessly1853
votively1857
smilelessly1869
unmirthfully1872
unsmilingly1879
inhumorously1898
soberingly1923
straightfacedly1977
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adverb] > with affected modesty
demurely1600
c1400 Rom. Rose 4627 She, demurely sad of chere.
c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 27 Walke demurely bi streetis in þe toun.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. xiii. 268 The prynce or his lieutenant oughte to aduyse demewrely herupon.
c1500 Consecration of Nuns in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1846) II. 314 The virgyns shall demeurely arryse and make a reverence to the bisshop.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ii. 184 Yf I doe not put on a sober habite..Weare prayer bookes in my pocket, looke demurely . View more context for this quotation
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. Fv Ile look as demurely as a saint.
1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iv. i He look'd so demurely, I thought butter would not haue melted in his mouth.
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xviii. 10 And now his look was most demurely sad.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xi. 190 Folding her little hands demurely before her.
1886 Manch. Examiner 27 Feb. 5/3 They sat down demurely in opposite corners of the carriage and observed a dignified silence.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > volume > [adverb] > softly
softa1550
demurelya1616
piano1762
sotto voce1776
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. x. 30 Hearke the Drummes demurely wake the sleepers. View more context for this quotation
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