distinguishedly

English

Etymology

Adverb

distinguishedly (comparative more distinguishedly, superlative most distinguishedly)

In a distinguished manner.
- 1758, Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen:
  This address was presented to the queen a day before that of the lords, and received an answer distinguishedly gracious.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “distinguishedly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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