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Distinctly   /dɪstˈɪŋktli/   Listen
adverb
Distinctly  adv.  
1.
With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.
2.
With meaning; significantly. (Obs.) "Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores."
Synonyms: Separately; clearly; plainly; obviously.





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"Distinctly" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I should not find you the same as I had seen you in my thoughts. Remember that it had been three years since we bid each other good bye. I remembered distinctly what you were when you went away, and, with imagination helping memory a little, I had reconstructed my Leon entire. But if you had no longer resembled him! What would have become of me in the presence ...
— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About
... injured the biography. In Johnson's words, 'his zeal of friendship, or ambition of eloquence, has produced a funeral oration rather than a history: he has given the character, not the life of Cowley; for he writes with so little detail that scarcely any thing is distinctly known, but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick.' Similarly Coleridge asks 'What literary man has not regretted the prudery of Sprat in refusing to let his friend Cowley appear in his slippers and dressing-gown?' (Biographia Literaria, ch. iii). ...
— Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles • Various
... persecuted woman, living on black bread and green water, in an unknown dungeon. My part shall be to discover her imprisonment. Sounds of strange music attract my attention to a part of the castle which I have not before frequented. There I shall distinctly hear a female voice chaunting the 'Bridesmaids' Chorus,' with Erard's double pedal accompaniment. By the aid of the confessors of the two families, two drinking, rattling, impertinent, most corrupt, and most amusing friars, to wit, ...
— Vivian Grey • The Earl of Beaconsfield
... part, went further than he had intended, and assented distinctly to all this, provided the delay was not unreasonable in point of time. "I can't have her ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade
... we find enclosed in the pores of the soil is distinctly poorer in oxygen than ordinary air. Boussingault found the percentage of oxygen in a sandy soil, freshly manured and wet with rain, to be as low as 10.35 per cent; while the air in forest-soil contained 19.5 per cent ...
— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman


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