mellifluously

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"When amatory poets sing their loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland, And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is in hand […]"
"[…] Mr Wyse had made no secret about the pleasure it would give him to hear his sister and herself mellifluously converse in the Italian tongue […]"
"Govind sang less mellifluously: he partly whined and partly grunted, from his habit of singing while lying on his belly."

Etymology tree English mellifluous Middle English -ly English -ly English mellifluously From mellifluous + -ly.

more mellifluously (comparative) most mellifluously (superlative)

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What does mellifluously mean?

In a mellifluous manner; sweetly.

Where does mellifluously come from?

Etymology tree English mellifluous Middle English -ly English -ly English mellifluously From mellifluous + -ly.

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