luculentlyadv.
/ˈl(j)uːkjʊləntli/ In a luculent manner; clearly.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adverb]
openlyOE
clearly1340
lightsomely?1510
perspicuously1592
luculently1613
dilucidly1638
lucidlyc1705
luminously1816
transpicuously1852
pellucidly1868
limpidly1870
1613 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 3) Luculently, clearely.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 177 So luculently foretold by this our Prophet Esaias.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §131 102 A Declaration..which most luculently solves all.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlix. 496 It deserved to be explained more luculently.
1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (1880) II. xi. 570 Nowhere has the transition of physical mythology into epic poetry..been so luculently shown as here.
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