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exquisitely en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English exquisite Middle English -ly English -ly English exquisitely From exquisite + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an exquisite manner.
   • Over the fish-dish — something sole-like, exquisitely seethed in a strange sauce, garnished with roots and fruits of the country — Tommy became sentimental. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 527:
   • She came running through the crowd dodging the cell-phoned heads, exquisitely attired as usual, probably the result of a recent shopping excursion at Fendi’s. 2008, Lloyd Mardis, chapter 39, in Beneath the Mirror (Samantha King Mystery Series; 1), Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 204:
2. Exceedingly; in the highest degree.
   • They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America. 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
   • There was something exquisitely painful in the memories that crowded upon his mind: a thousand of Constance's daily acts of affection rose before him: neyer till this moment had he felt them unrequited; but now they were remembered like a reproach. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 282–283:

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Translations (3)

eo delikate (in an exquisite manner) · fr exquisement (in an exquisite manner) · fr exquisément (in an exquisite manner)