Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In respect to features, appearance, or manner: in compounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably.
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Examples
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The writer knows men who could speak Latin "readily and well-favoredly, who to have done as much in our language and to have handled the same matter, would have been half black."
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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The iniquity that cleaveth to men that profess, if they cast it not away, but countenance it, will all prove nettles and briars to them; and I will assure thee, yea, thou knowest, that nettles and thorns will sting and scratch but ill-favoredly.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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He will then know how to put himself in the place of the poet, and will not be so likely to mar the poet's verses by "reading them ill-favoredly."
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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And this was the rare morsel so officiously snatched up, and so ill-favoredly imitated by our inquisiturient30 bishops, and the attendant minorites31 their chaplains.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909
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And this was the rare morsel so officiously snatched up, and so ill-favoredly imitated by our inquisiturient bishops, and the attendant minorities, their chaplains.
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In, this case, as too common with all men, but especially with those of his rough trade, what little sense or manners he possessed deserted him; and he behaved himself so scandalous to the young lady, jesting most ill-favoredly at the figure she had made on the ship's rail, that I had no resource but carry her suddenly away.
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Captain John Smith found that the Powhatans of Virginia employed the word _oki_, above, in the same sense, and it even had passed into a definite personification among them in the shape of an "idol of wood evil-favoredly carved."
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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For the only or chiefest hardness, which seemeth, is in the accent, which sometime gapeth, and, as it were, yawneth ill-favoredly, coming short of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number, as in
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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When Queen Mary set up Popery in England, and restored all of it which King Henry had overthrown, she considered that Popery could not stand well-favoredly without the ceremonies; whereupon she ordained, (560) _ut dies omnes festicelebrentur, superioris aetatis ceremoniae restituantur, pueri adultiores __ ante baptisati, ab episcopis confirmentur.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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English word for word; when thou must seek a compass in the Latin, and yet shalt have much work to translate it well-favoredly, so that it have the same grace and sweetness, sense and pure understanding with it in the Latin, and as it hath in the Hebrew. "[
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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