lacrimosely

comparative more lacrimosely · superlative most lacrimosely

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of lachrymosely.

   “One cannot help hoping,” he lacrimosely and charitably adds, “that Mr. [Charles] Dickens, when he wrote these lines really believed what he was writing.”

   1852 August 6, The Daily News, number 1,937, London: William King Hales, →OCLC, page 4, column 2

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   The several viewers of distinct Berlin character who interrupt the fairy-tale plot represent the ruling critics and taste of the day. Principal among them is Bötticher, in real life Karl August Böttiger, author of the much ridiculed theeatrical treatise Entwicklung des Ifflandischen Spieles in vierzehn Darstellungen auf dem Weimarschen Hoftheater im Aprilmonat 1796 (Leipzig 1797), in which he extols the well-made moralistic, often lacrimosely sentimental, social and family portraits by August Wilhelm Iffland, 1759–1814, the famous actor and playwright who directed the theatre at Mannheim (1785–92) and Berlin, beginning as guest performer (1796 on).

   1974, Gerald Gillespie, “Notes”, in Ludwig Tieck, translated by Gerald Gillespie, Der gestiefelte Kater: Puss-in-Boots (Edinburgh Bilingual Library of European Literature; 8), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, note 2, page 132

   In the Journal du Peuple, also in April [1923], [André] Breton wrote lacrimosely: J’ai quitté mes effets / mes beaux effets de neige. (I’ve stopped all my performances / my beautiful demonstrations in snow.)

   1980, Alice Goldfarb Marquis, “The Pun Is Mightier Than the Sword”, in Marcel Duchamp: Eros, c’est la vie: A Biography, Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Publishing Company, published 1981, →ISBN, page 204