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voluptuously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English voluptuous Middle English -ly English -ly English voluptuously From voluptuous + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a voluptuous manner.
    • In the close of the evening, I took care to have prepar'd for me a warm bath of aromatick and sweet herbs; in which having fully laved and solaced myself, I came out voluptuously refresh'd in body and spirit. 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

Forms

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more voluptuously Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most voluptuously Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (1)

fi hekumallisesti (in a voluptuous manner)