Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a balmy manner.
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- adverb In a balmy manner.
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- adverb In a
balmy manner.
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- adverb in a mildly insane manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Hush!" she whispered most gently, glancing toward her father, now balmily sleeping.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Poppa looked guardedly round at me, but by this time I was asleep in my camp chair, the air was so balmily cool after our hot rattle to Como.
A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan
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McKinley, it was said, could say no to three different seekers for the same office so balmily that each of them went away convinced that he was the successful applicant.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919
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And then in the morning the air would be more balmily insulting than ever.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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The sun shone warm and bright; the chinook blew balmily and alluringly; the trail stretched before us dry and level.
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"Unless he thought you would find it out by intuition," Kathryn suggested balmily, as she leaned back in her chair and smoothed her dressing gown.
The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905
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A general air of joyful mystery and spiritual endeavour blew balmily round them all, and without any doubt the exercises and the deep breathing were extremely good for them.
Queen Lucia 1903
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And then in the morning the air would be more balmily insulting than ever.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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I should have been, in that case, at the present writing, in a fidget too fierce for endurance, whereas I now can prattle to you quite balmily; for which you are all, no doubt, deeply grateful.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
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As the evening came on the weather steadily cleared; -- and presently a pure, calm, dark-blue expanse of ether stretched balmily across the whole width of the waves, with the evening star -- the Star of Love -- glimmering faintly aloft like a delicate jewel hanging on the very heart of the air.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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