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decorously

adv
/ˈdɛkɹəsli/UK

Etymology

From decorous + -ly.

  1. derived from *déḱos✻ — “that which is proper”
  2. derived from decorōsus — “beautiful; elegant”
  3. derived from *deḱ-✻ — “to perceive; to take”
  4. derived from decōrus — “becoming, fitting, proper, suitable”
  5. suffixed as decorously — “decorous + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a decorous manner.

    • […] below them, men and women, and boys and girls, sinners all, loitered; sometimes one of the church-members passed and saw them and waved. Then, for the moment that they waved decorously back, they were intimidated.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA