Dictionary

mellifluously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English mellifluous Middle English -ly English -ly English mellifluously From mellifluous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a mellifluous manner; sweetly.
   • Govind sang less mellifluously: he partly whined and partly grunted, from his habit of singing while lying on his belly. 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:
   • When amatory poets sing their loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland, And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is in hand […] 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto V, Stanza 1:
   • […] Mr Wyse had made no secret about the pleasure it would give him to hear his sister and herself mellifluously converse in the Italian tongue […] 1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 6, in Mapp and Lucia:

Forms