fairily

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adverb

In the manner of a fairy.

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Meanings

adverbfairily (comparative more fairily, superlative most fairily)

comparative more fairily · superlative most fairily

  1. archaicpoeticIn the manner of a fairy.

    At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay / Of old romance.

    1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza V, page 85

Origin

From fairy + -ly.

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