Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a melancholy manner; with melancholy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a melancholy manner.

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  • adverb In a melancholy manner.

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Examples

  • The wife of La Queue lived very melancholily for twenty years in her village, never left it, and scarcely ever went abroad for fear of betraying herself.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • -- Sad to lose the old friends, Mrs Breen's womaneyes said melancholily.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • It was here when Michelangelo and Raphael and Titian were ragamuffins in the populous streets; it was leafing when Petrarch indited pages to his Laura; when Dante gazed melancholily upon his

    The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901

  • "I'll fetch Harrop," he said, melancholily, to his cousin.

    The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899

  • The awful man folded up the paper very melancholily, and thrust it into his waistcoat pocket, and thus saved me the expense of some very excellent magnanimity, which I had determined to display, had he proceeded to flagellation.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • The wife of La Queue lived very melancholily for twenty years in her village, never left it, and scarcely ever went abroad for fear of betraying herself.

    Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

  • The wife of La Queue lived very melancholily for twenty years in her village, never left it, and scarcely ever went abroad for fear of betraying herself.

    Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 04 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

  • Sad to lose the old friends, Mrs Breen’s womaneyes said melancholily.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Who, then, will be able to disarm them? "added he, melancholily, shaking his head.

    The Secret of the Night Gaston Leroux 1897

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