Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a learned manner; with learning or erudition; with skill: as, to discuss a question learnedly.
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- adverb In an
educated and knowledgable manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with erudition; in an erudite manner
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Examples
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Cannot believe that our 'leader,' DP 'can continue to write so lucidly and learnedly after all the head rattling he must have experienced.
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Cannot believe that our 'leader,' DP 'can continue to write so lucidly and learnedly after all the head rattling he must have experienced.
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You reminded me for all the world of the scholastics of the Middle Ages who gravely and learnedly debated the absorbing question of how many angels could dance on the point of a needle.
Chapter 1: My Eagle 2010
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Ahbleza Kevin Ahbleza does a masterful job expounding quite learnedly on the spirits.
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A good deal of work on the Presbyterian texts had been performed and was lightly but learnedly deployed.
No Way 2006
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A good deal of work on the Presbyterian texts had been performed and was lightly but learnedly deployed.
No Way 2006
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This reference to India, also learnedly advocated by M. Langlès, was inevitable in those days: it had not then been proved that India owed all her literature to far older civilisations and even that her alphabet the Nágari, erroneously called Devanágari, was derived through
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Philosophy and the Laws of her Country her chief Business, in which she was pleas'd sometimes to entertain me very learnedly.
Exilius 2008
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Carpenter is more subtle than Romero in his evocation of social conflict but his insight is as profound as that film's Vietnam-infused anger, the hopefully optimistic ying to Romero's learnedly pessimistic yang.
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