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Definition of Comelily
1. adv. In a suitable or becoming manner.
Definition of Comelily
1. Adverb. In a comely manner; attractively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comelily
1. comely [adv] - See also: comely
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comelily
Literary usage of Comelily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chaucer and His England by George Gordon Coulton (1908)
"Sooth to sayen, I saw one That was like none of the rout . . . I saw her dance
so comelily, Carol and sing so ..."
2. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1908)
"In that same age lived Chaucer's sweetheart: "I saw her dance so comelily, Carol
and sing so sweetly, And laugh and play so womanly, And look so debonairly, ..."
3. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"Many gifts were there, Fretted things of fairness brought from far-off ways 1 —
Never heard I of a keel hung more comelily about With the weeds of war, ..."
4. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"Never heard I of a keel hung more comelily about With the weeds of war, with the
weapons of the battle,. ..."
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