Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a flourishing manner; with adornment; thrivingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
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- adverb In a
flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He dipped the pen into the inkwell and wrote: the letters sparkled and seemed to sink into the vellum as he inscribed them flourishingly.
Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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Everything went flourishingly; to be sure, there were more ladies than gentlemen, which required much watching and managing on Bea's part, that no lady should suffer a dearth of masculine attention.
Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving
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He sat with the pen perched flourishingly at the end of his fingers, suspended in the serious and artistic business of filling in a form.
The Lost Girl 1907
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We were its leaders and exponents, we were the thing it most flourishingly produced.
Tono Bungay 1906
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We planked five hundred and eighty dollars cash, and selected two more men, whom we thought were as honest as the sun, to carry on our business, and it was carried on flourishingly for a year, and then that busted up, and I never got the sixteenth part of a cent, nor did either of the five who constituted the firm.
Life of George Henry : together with a brief history of the colored people in America, 1894
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Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants, and thrive flourishingly in persecution.
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Nevertheless, she reached down for the whistle, wiped the mouthpiece dry, and sent the baby into ecstasies by executing "Yankee Doodle" flourishingly upon it.
When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876
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Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants, and thrive flourishingly in persecution.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants, and thrive flourishingly in persecution.
The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants, and thrive flourishingly in persecution.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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