Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a subtile manner; thinly; finely.
- Artfully; skilfully; subtly.
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- adverb Obsolete form of
subtly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His expression shifted subtilely, but in it Tyrande caught a glimpse of something that she almost thought remorse.
THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005
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Power subtilely radiating from a nexus far, far from him.
THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005
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How by the virtue of the decretals, gold is subtilely drawn out of France to Rome.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How by the virtue of the decretals, gold is subtilely drawn out of France to Rome.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How by the virtue of the decretals, gold is subtilely drawn out of France to Rome.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How by the virtue of the decretals, gold is subtilely drawn out of France to Rome.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How by the virtue of the decretals, gold is subtilely drawn out of France to Rome.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The same dealt subtilely with our kindred, Ex. 1.10, 11 and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
Acts 7. 1999
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He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilely with his servants.
Psalms 105. 1999
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Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilely.
1 Samuel 23. 1999
bilby commented on the word subtilely
"Therefore take that, and take off the pommel, and thereto make ye a pommel of precious stones, that it be so subtilely made that no man perceive it but that they be all one; and after make there an hilt so marvellously and wonderly that no man may know it; and after make a marvellous sheath."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 13, 2009
tankhughes commented on the word subtilely
This is less subtle.
May 5, 2023