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balmily en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɑːmɪli/ (UK)
  • /ˈbɔ(l)məli/ (US)
  • /ˈbɑ(l)məli/ (US)

Etymology

From balmy + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a balmy manner.
    • Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling: Mother sits beside thee smiling: Sleep, my darling, tenderly! If thou sleep not, mother mourneth, Singing as her wheel she turneth: Come, soft slumber, balmily. 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Virgin's Cradle-hymn:

Forms

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most balmily Degree=Sup lexicographic
more balmily Degree=Cmp lexicographic