eloquentlyadv.
/ˈɛləkwəntli/ a. In an eloquent manner. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adverb]
largec1405
sensibly?a1425
eloquently1471
fectuallyc1485
in largea1500
pithily1533
enforcingly1571
emphatically1577
nervously1641
sensible1659
nervosely1678
forcefullya1774
cogentlya1797
accentedly1856
tersely1874
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy v. xxiv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 154 How eloquently..they clape.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 57v Carolus Sigonius hath written of late, both learnedlie and eloquentlie.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiii. 204 Written by them eloquently in Greek.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) i. 20 Pictures, rural and domestic..appeal so eloquently to the fancy.
b. humorously.
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1853 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) vii. 284 Eloquently drunk.
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