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characterfully en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Hellenic *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der. Latin charactērder. Old French caracterebor. Middle English caracter English character Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful English -ful English characterful Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English characterfully From characterful + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a characterful way.
   • The lines leap off the page in the 1817 volume not, I insist, because they are good, and not because they are characterfully bad like so much of the early poetry of feel, but because they are unKeatsian. 1969, John Jones, John Keats’s Dream of Truth, New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., II: The Abstract Idea. 2. Hyperion, page 79:
   • My idea concerning the stage picture was that it should represent truthfully and characterfully the original ‘Dance in Place Congo’ as described by Mr. Cable. 1919, Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, quotee, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thirty-Ninth Season, 1919–1920: Programme of the First Afternoon and Evening Concerts, “The Dance in Place Congo,” Symphonic Poem (after George W. Cable), page 1093:
   • Unfortunately, your characterfully arranged business card turns out ineffective because of a poor choice of colors. 1923 January, J. L. Frazier, “Specimens”, in Harry Hillman, editor, The Inland Printer, volume 70, number 4, page 548:

Forms

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pl charakternie (Translations)