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Definition of Readably

1. Adverb. In a legible manner. "You must write legibly"

Definition of Readably

1. Adverb. (poetic or nonstandard) In a manner to be readable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Readably

1. read [adv] - See also: read

Lexicographical Neighbors of Readably

Literary usage of Readably

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon (1811)
"A HE review of the nations from the ~*x*"^ to tne Nile has exposed on every side the wfit ness of the Romans ; and our wonder is readably excited that they ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"... and published by Henry Holt & Co., contains an enormous amount of information about young animals, compactly and readably told by a British naturalist. ..."

3. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1896)
"... of the Federalist spot, of Adams's waywardness, and Hamilton's rasura are again told, and readably told. King's closest correspondents were Pickering, ..."

4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"... few people who could write intelligibly on matters of metric, and also readably. His loss is a loss both to Ireland and to literature, and it is a loss ..."

5. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... lavish use of engravings, which at once illustrate the verbal explanations of technical and scientific terms, and permit them to remain readably brief. ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"... a traveller with much special knowledge of or affinity for the peoples of the near East ; but he b.9s observed sympathetically and described readably. ..."

7. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... in fact, the whole treatise is so readably and rationally written that it deserves to be better known than it is, and especially to be separated from an ..."

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