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  • adjective Resembling a stag or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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stag +‎ -like

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Examples

  • But then you have scenes of group spellcasting, where the males go rather staglike from so much power, and have to be brought back down, sexually.

    The Enchantment Emporium, by Tanya Huff jimhines 2009

  • I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a staglike swiftness.

    Frankenstein 2003

  • With his natural advantages, his six foot three of height and his staglike agility, he could hardly fail to be formidable.

    Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

  • With his natural advantages, his six foot three of height and his staglike agility, he could hardly fail to be formidable.

    Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • While Catherine and Elsmere escorted Mrs. Darcy to the gate she turned to go in, her head thrown back staglike, her cheek still burning.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a staglike swiftness.

    Frankenstein 1818

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