Elizabethanly

comparative more Elizabethanly · superlative most Elizabethanly

1. In an Elizabethan manner.

   It might be Elizabethanly rendered, “How absolute the knave is.”

   1932 April, Paul Shorey, “Robert Burton’s “Philosophaster,” with an English Translation of the Same, Together with His Other Minor Writings in Prose and Verse. By Paul Jordan-Smith. […]”, in Classical Philology, volume XXVII, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, page 197

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   A terrific energy speaks out in fierce social criticism directed against perjurers, extortioners and unjust, swindling tax-gatherers, bargainers and lovers of simony; against hazarders and dicers, ‘kirk-chatterers’, slanderers and backbiters; against women, with their moods and hypocrisies, their vanity and exaggerated dress with horns on their heads (shared, to speak Elizabethanly, by their husbands), against male dandies, servants who don’t know their due place, toss-pots or ‘ale-sitters’, and lechers with their ‘Janets of the stews’.

   1950, A[rthur] P[ercival] Rossiter, “Gothic Drama”, in English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans: Its Background, Origins and Developments, London: Hutchinson’s University Library, page 68

   The innocent saved by the innocent, we may say; or, more likely (and certainly more Elizabethanly), the knaves caught out by the fools.

   1959, John Garrett, editor, More Talking of Shakespeare, Longmans, page 134

   However much Sir John chooses—from some point of view that is anarchic or democratic or Elizabethanly aristocratic—to feel himself outside or even above Hal’s royalty, he depends on it, just as he does on the Prince’s youth.

   1991, Barbara Everett, “The Fatness of Falstaff: Shakespeare and Character”, in 1990 Lectures and Memoirs (Proceedings of the British Academy; 76), Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126

   Smile more often at strangers, my mother writes in the meticulous and Elizabethanly black penmanship for which she received excellent marks at Alexander Muir Elementary School in downtown Toronto, Ontario, circa 1934.

   2000, Tim Bowling, The Thin Smoke of the Heart, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 51

   Apparently, neither the lawyers, the paralegals, nor the support staff were accustomed to having unaccompanied guests walking through the offices, but Rocky and Lauren just smiled at the people who stared at them with puzzled looks on their faces, sometimes waving, Elizabethanly, as if he and Lauren were visiting royalty.

   2017, Garibaldi Sabio, Tossed Overboard, Xlibris, →ISBN