Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By adorning; in an adorning manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By adorning; decoratively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb By
adorning ;decoratively .
Etymologies
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adorning + -ly
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Examples
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In the midst of my travels, I noticed a startling phenomenon in the past 3 years: the removal of the cloth, once so adorningly clung to by Muslim women world wide - what I like to call "dehijabization".
altmuslim 2009
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In the midst of my travels, I noticed a startling phenomenon in the past 3 years: the removal of the cloth, once so adorningly clung to by Muslim women world wide - what I like to call "dehijabization".
altmuslim 2009
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