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Webster 1913 Edition


Exquisitely

Ex′qui-site-ly

,
adv.
In an exquisite manner or degree;
as, lace
exquisitely
wrought
.
To a sensitive observer there was something
exquisitely
painful in it.
Hawthorne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Exquisitely

EX'QUISITELY

,
adv.
Nicely; accurately; with great perfection; as a work exquisitely finished; exquisitely written.
1.
With keen sensation or with nice perception. We feel pain more exquisitely when nothing diverts our attention from it.
We see more exquisitely with one eye shut.

Definition 2024


exquisitely

exquisitely

English

Adverb

exquisitely (comparative more exquisitely, superlative most exquisitely)

  1. In an exquisite manner.
  2. Exceedingly; in the highest degree;
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 2/2/2, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
      They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.