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Etymology

Etymology tree English operatic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English operatically From operatic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In an operatic manner.
   • There Agnes operatically ponders (“I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps”; “I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate”), poeticizing even her wounds, the bruises “blossoming like star clusters under the skin.” 2013 September 27, Steven Heighton, “Fire and Ice”, in The New York Times:
   • Notable too, if only for historical interest, was a sonata by Donizetti in which, not surprisingly, an operatically shaped flute line is set over a dramatic piano accompaniment. 1988 May 1, Allan Kozinn, “Debuts; Flutist Chooses Program of Rarities”, in The New York Times:

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