perspicuously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

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"Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one."

Etymology tree English perspicuous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English perspicuously From perspicuous + -ly.

more perspicuously (comparative) most perspicuously (superlative)

perspective perspicacious perspicaciously perspicacity perspicuity perspicuous perspicuousness

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