Meanings
adverbunillustriously (comparative more unillustriously, superlative most unillustriously)
comparative more unillustriously · superlative most unillustriously
- In a way that is not illustrious.
Knighted unillustriously among a horde of some three hundred others in the accession honours of 1603, he was subsequently well compensated by being made Baron Verulam[…]
1961, A. C. Ward, Illustrated History of English Literature, page 22
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