Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a distinguished manner; eminently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare In a distinguished manner.
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- adverb In a
distinguished manner.
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Examples
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Same thing I have against Eliot Spitzer's and William Jefferson's bald scalps, and Tim Mahoney's distinguishedly graying sweep.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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Same thing I have against Eliot Spitzer's and William Jefferson's bald scalps, and Tim Mahoney's distinguishedly graying sweep.
Dishonest hair 2008
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That her shape was so fine, her proportion so exact, her features so regular, her complexion so lovely, and her whole person and manner so distinguishedly charming, that she could not move without being admired and followed by the eyes of every one, though strangers, who never saw her before.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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There are people who call him a Socialist, and that, with some definition, is what Mr. Wells calls himself; there are others who call him a revolutionist; but, under whatever caption, he is distinguishedly a maker of books, informing vitalizing, indispensable books; and when one attempts to account for the range and variety of Mr. Wells 'product, the first inescapable inference is that behind them is a man of broad and specific learning.
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I found George Ward waiting for me on the little veranda of the pavilion, looking handsomer and more prosperously distinguished and distinguishedly prosperous and generally well-conditioned than ever -- as
The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907
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The Campbell family of the common ancestry of Governor Campbell has been numerously and distinguishedly represented in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
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It was in the days of Rodney's war, when the Prothée, we read, captured two large privateers to windward of Barbadoes, and was 'materially and distinguishedly engaged' in both the actions with De Grasse.
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She was handsome, strikingly, distinguishedly handsome, he said to himself; but there was something lacking.
The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories Margaret Collier Graham 1880
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It is more natural to imagine, that as he was himself no friend to rhime, and finding Dryden in his early age peculiarly happy in the faculty of rhiming, without having thrown out any thoughts, which were in themselves distinguishedly great, Milton might, without the imputation of ill nature, characterise Dryden, as we have already seen.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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It is more natural to imagine, that as he was himself no friend to rhime, and finding Dryden in his early age peculiarly happy in the faculty of rhiming, without having thrown out any thoughts, which were in themselves distinguishedly great, Milton might, without the imputation of ill nature, characterise Dryden, as we have already seen.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Theophilus Cibber 1730
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