Meanings
adverbbalmily (comparative more balmily, superlative most balmily)
comparative more balmily · superlative most balmily
- In a balmy manner.
Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling: Mother sits beside thee smiling: Sleep, my darling, tenderly! If thou sleep not, mother mourneth, Singing as her wheel she turneth: Come, soft slumber, balmily.
1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Virgin's Cradle-hymn
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barmily (non-rhotic)
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APA
balmily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balmily
MLA
“balmily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balmily. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “balmily,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balmily.
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