| 单词 |
expressively |
| 释义 |
expressively, adv.|ɛkˈsprɛsɪvlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In an expressive manner; with expressive significance. † Formerly also, In respect of (practical) expression (obs.).
1627–47Feltham Resolves ii. lxxxii. 424 We seldom find the ignorant man honest; if he be mentally, yet he failes expressively. 1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. ii. xiii. 114 Nature..is most expressively set forth with a biformed body. 1762Sterne Let. 19 Mar., A gentleman..has taken it [portrait] most expressively. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. III. 114 Emma fixed her eyes expressively on her father. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. IV. 148 The clerk of the prison [was sent] to a place expressively called ‘Little Ease.’ |

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