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Definition of Risibly
1. risible [adv] - See also: risible
Lexicographical Neighbors of Risibly
Literary usage of Risibly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister by Thomas Boston (1849)
"But in what other respects can they be risibly cursed, when they are risibly
blessed in this respect ? Were they in the most miserable cose that over any ..."
2. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"... prerogative of the crown in filling offices of such vast importance, and to
check the ecclesiastics in that independence to which they risibly aspired. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"The command has no relation to the cities of the Canaanites till we come to ver.
16. which is risibly an exception to the general rcode of carrying on war ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"The mother-wit of the girl and the doting folly of the dupe are most risibly
contrasted. The whole scene is a good satire on wanton gentlemen who have ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"... youthful nobility of Cockaigne, a perfect model of monarchical dignity, but
is, in fact, risibly characteristic of your plebeian origin and education. ..."
6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"... two marriageable men in dusty and unbecoming attire, and with fatigue risibly
stamped on their faces, for the first time. But their evening appearance ..."
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