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festivally en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a festival.
    • So you're much more part of the community if you go out and do festivally things. 2016, Jodie Taylor, Andy Bennett, The Festivalization of Culture, page 120:

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festivally en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare) In a festive manner.
    • These three days of Byram they spend festivally, rejoicing with abundance of illuminations all night, shooting of guns, and fireworks flying in the air; for they reckon that all their sins are now done away, […] 1857, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, page 346:

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most festivally Degree=Sup lexicographic
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