Meanings
- not comparableIn the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
There England’s enemies are the pope and his priestly minions or the French, all of whom write or speak Latinly.
2010, Grace Tiffany, “Being English Through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism”, in Beatrice Batson, editor, Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 354 more examples
You ſhall hardly finde a man amongſt them, which cannot make a shift to expresse himself in that language; nor one amongst a hundred that can do it Latinly
1656, John Heylyn, A survey of the estate of FranceAmong them they have developed a repertoire of apparently endless variety, touching nearly every facet of the Spanish character, from the naively peasant to the Latinly sophisticated.
1940, The American Dancer, page 42Return. Re-turn. With “re” being defined, loosely, linguistically, Latinly, as “again,” and “turn” as, probably, “back.” So, “again back.”
2013 January 12, Mike Bell, “When things we used to love boomerang back”, in Calgary Herald, page D1Brann takes the real in a (Latinly) literal sense, as meaning possessing ‘thinghood,’ “and material thinghood at that” (387).
2017, Dennis Sepper, “Foreword”, in Eva T. H. Brann, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, 25th anniversary edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxiv
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Latinly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Latinly
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