edwardianly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was not as if I had knocked about a lot on my own, and was thoroughly emancipated and “independent”. On the contrary, I was Edwardianly dutiful, and still “minded” what was said to me. In those days children did not call their parents by their Christian names, and most children were—more or less—in awe of their fathers and mothers."
- "Grant and his son bore to the conference table the clothes they stood up in—in Bernard’s case a high four-button single-breasted which he fancied made him look Edwardianly severe—and one briefcase, Michael’s."
- "Jessie looks out from the photograph, full-length, quarter-profile, Edwardianly dressed, hands on hips, her hair a feral variation on Gibson Girl."
Etymology
From Edwardian + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Edwardianly (comparative)
most Edwardianly (superlative)