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mellifluously

adv

Etymology

From mellifluous + -ly.

  1. borrowed from mellifluus
  2. suffixed as mellifluously — “mellifluous + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a mellifluous manner

    In a mellifluous manner; sweetly.

    • When amatory poets sing their loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland, And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is in hand […]
    • […] Mr Wyse had made no secret about the pleasure it would give him to hear his sister and herself mellifluously converse in the Italian tongue […]
    • Govind sang less mellifluously: he partly whined and partly grunted, from his habit of singing while lying on his belly.

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