单词 | germanly |
释义 | Germanlyadv. In the manner of German or Germans; to a degree attributed to Germans. ΚΠ 1787 J. Elphinston Propriety Ascertained II. iii. 138 Noun plural first ended Germanly. 1799 R. Southey Let. 5 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. vi. 19 Davy, the Pneumatic Institute experimentalist, is a first-rate man,..and learnable-from (which, by the by, is as fine a Germanly compounded word as you may expect to see). 1854 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. 351 He is a man of real culture, kindliness, and polish (Germanly speaking). 1889 Academy 16 Nov. 318/1 The Pastor's Widow and her Son, translated from the German.., is a Germanly tender and pathetic little story relating the trials of the pastor's widow and how they were finally surmounted. 1915 Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 234 His aide-de-camp (or ‘adjutant’, as the officer might more Germanly be called). 1938 N. Frye Let. 4 Nov. in M. Burgess Glorious & Terrible Life with You (2007) 361 Brieger was there in one of his Germanly masculine moods—he said how nice for you—to be in Oxford. 1998 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 5 Dec. 2 Unless you get there Germanly early you'll be looking at a wait of around an hour per ride, but most are worth it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1787 |
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