Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a complimentary manner; by way of compliment.
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- adverb In a
complimental fashion.
Etymologies
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complimental + -ly
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Examples
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As she attended me at dinner, she took notice, That Nature is satisfied with a very little nourishment: and thus she complimentally proved it — For, Miss, said she, you eat nothing; yet never looked more charmingly in your life.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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As she attended me at dinner, she took notice, That Nature is satisfied with a very little nourishment: and thus she complimentally proved it --
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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