silkenly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it."
- "He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved."
- "[…] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]"
Etymology
From silken + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more silkenly (comparative)
most silkenly (superlative)