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slenderly en · ADV

Etymology

From slender + -ly.

Meanings

1. Thinly, slightly, delicately.
   • The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.
2. meagrely; deficiently
   • It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance […] 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

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