Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; gloriously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
illustrious manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an illustrious manner
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Examples
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Seeing their own values and methods so illustriously trumpeted, they can hardly be expected not to bask in the article's own smugness.
erin Khue Ninh: Amy Chua's Recipe for Disaster and the Externalized Cost of Book Sales erin Khue Ninh 2011
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Seeing their own values and methods so illustriously trumpeted, they can hardly be expected not to bask in the article's own smugness.
erin Khue Ninh: Amy Chua's Recipe for Disaster and the Externalized Cost of Book Sales erin Khue Ninh 2011
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As we have seen so illustriously over the past year, all Ponzi schemes eventually fail under their own weight.
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Jette Kernion enjoyed the illustriously peopled "Panel of the Dead."
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Bishops Committee of Doctrine (and, less illustriously, as I point out in Good Catholic Girls, a bishop who has kept an accused priest sex molester in ministry after including his victim in a $21 million settlement).
Angela Bonavoglia: Catholic Bishops Agree -- Reluctantly, Reluctantly! -- to Treat Rape Victims 2008
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During the ceremony, Soraya Abdullah Hakim, the president of the Afghan Department of Orphanages, thanked us lavishly and illustriously for our gift, while also reminding us that Afghanistan was very poor and that when we come back we should bring more bikes for her children, and medicine, and books, and skin lotions and shampoo and pens.
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Aided by a menagerie of illustriously voiced sidekicks (including Dustin Hoffman as a red panda, Angelina Jolie as a tigress, and Chan himself as a monkey), an eager but unlikely hero emerges in Po, a pot-bellied giant panda voiced winningly by Jack Black.
Weekend Reels: Friday, June 6: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008
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In the fourth and final picture a widow and her daughter survey a military monument to their illustriously dead husband and father.
Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005
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Never were dignity and humility so illustriously mingled!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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I never in my life beheld a skins so illustriously fair.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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