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1,000+ words match “MANNER”

ELEGANT a. 2 definitions
freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.
ELEGANTLY adv.
In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
ELFISHLY adv.
In an elfish manner.
ELIGIBLY adv.
In an eligible manner.
ELOCUTION n. 3 definitions
rical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately
ELOQUENT a. 2 definitions
pressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.
ELOQUENTLY adv.
In an eloquent manner.
ELUDE v.
To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, elud…
ELVISHLY adv.
In an elvish manner. Sir W. Scott.
EMARGINATELY adv.
In an emarginate manner.
EMINENTLY adv.
In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned.
EMISSARY n. 3 definitions
An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.
EMOTIONALISM n.
The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
EMPHATIC; EMPHATICAL a. 2 definitions
ng of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning.
EMPHATICALLY adv. 2 definitions
With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preëminently. He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay.
EMPIRICALLY adv.
By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
EMPRESSEMENT n.
Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.
EMULATIVELY adv.
In an emulative manner; with emulation.
EMULOUSLY adv.
In an emulous manner.
ENCLITICALLY adv.
In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back. Walker.
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