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slenderly

adv

Etymology

From slender + -ly.

  1. derived from *sleydʰ-✻
  2. derived from *slindraz✻
  3. derived from slinder
  4. derived from esclendre
  5. inherited from slendre
  6. suffixed as slenderly — “slender + ly”

Definitions

  1. Thinly, slightly, delicately.

    • The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.

  2. meagrely

    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 […]

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