grandly

English

Etymology

grand +‎ -ly

Adverb

grandly (comparative more grandly, superlative most grandly)

1. In a grand manner.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]

2. (rare) To the greatest extent.
   • 1892, Anna Laurens Dawes, Charles Sumner‎^[1], Dodd, Mead and Company, page 2:

     But whether or not Sumner was the most typical man of his native commonwealth, he certainly does take a representative place on the bede-roll of her great sons. And on a wider field he does especially and grandly represent the Puritan spirit and the Pilgrim idea, and so the peculiar ethical and political idea of our whole nation.

   • 1899, Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline‎^[2], Harper & Brothers, page 2:

     The world had appreciated what he had done, and had put much to his credit, and he was prepared to draw upon this grandly.

   • 1902, William Elliot Griffis, A Maker of the New Orient: Samuel Robbins Brown, Pioneer educator in China, America, and Japan: The Story of His Life and Work‎^[3], F.H. Revell, page 102:

     Thus happily unfolding his plans, his work enlarged grandly. He was living in high hopes of spending uninterruptedly the greater part of his life in China.

Synonyms

• regally

Anagrams

• gyrland