2. Adverb. In a cavernous manner; sounding deep, hollow, or echoey. ¹
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Definition of Cavernously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavernously
Literary usage of Cavernously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"... and of cavernously weathered boulders were also recorded. Samples were collected
according to morphological criteria and sieved in the field through a ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... which caused him to lie on the rug in front of the fire and groan cavernously.
She bathed his feet in hot mustard water until they were lobster-red. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"The hippopotamus yawned cavernously for her while she undid her long white glove
and thrust in an arm of more exquisite creaminess between the slaty walls ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"... and the sighs which now and again she heaved cavernously, he absented himself
as much as might be from the home which had been everything desirable to ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"agents of the Providence she invoked to precipitate the catastrophe, were then
beginning cavernously their performance of the part of villain in Diana's ..."
6. The circular staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1908)
"I left the lights all on, and our footsteps echoed cavernously. Liddy had a stiff
neck the next morning, from looking back over her shoulder, ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"... I was much struck with the fine forms and solemn light and shade of a rock,
that was cavernously hollow at its base, and very near the stream. ..."
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