murmurouslyadv.
/ˈməːm(ə)rəsli/, U.S. /ˈmərm(ə)rəsli/ With murmurs or murmuring; as a murmur.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > [adverb] > murmuring sound
mutteringlyc1681
murmurously1851
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. xxii. 131 And murmurously the ebbing waters grit The little pebbles.
1890 Chambers's Jrnl. 13 Sept. 592/2 Murmurously low Falls the sad rhythm of old Ocean's tread.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 157 He told himself calmly that those words had absolutely no sense which had seemed to rise murmurously from the dark.
1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1989) 157 Two parties of officials toured the great windowless building murmurously.
2010 N. Baker in New Yorker 9 Aug. 57/2 You can even hire a group of murmurously flirty courtesans who wear low-cut pastel gowns and coo provocatively.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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