gospelly

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adjective

Resembling gospel music

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Meanings

adjectivegospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)

comparative more gospelly · superlative most gospelly

  1. Resembling gospel music

    When we reach the piano, Ormus sits down and starts to play a slow, haunting gospelly tune.

    2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, published 2000, page 539
adverbgospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)

comparative more gospelly · superlative most gospelly

  1. archaicChristianityIn the manner of the Gospel

    The Ceremonies cease, but yet the Creede / Contained therein, continues gospelly, / That make my feeble Spirits will grow frim.

    1698, Edward Taylor, “Meditation 25”, in The Poems of Edward Taylor, UNC, published 1989, →ISBN, page 129

Origin

From gospel + -y.

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Chicago

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