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Greekly
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Etymology
From en Greek ly.
Adverb
In a Greek manner; in a way characteristic of Greeks.
13 The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect.
en 2007 Colleen McCullough The October Horse http://books.google.com/books?id=XOVLJvQ45iwC&q=%22Greekly%22 82 Simon & Schuster 9781416566656 Originally all the Delta waterways had been natural, but after the Greekly scientific Ptolemies came to rule Egypt, they connected Nilus's network of arms with thousands of canals,
en 2011 Robert Metcalfe Simpson Agonistes: A History of a Crime http://books.google.com/books?id=wTtQ3nHyxFIC&pg=PA19&dq=%22Greekly%22 19 iUniverse 2012 9781469783086 They were termed agons (or, to pluralize more Greekly, agones), which word, despite the evident connection to our agony or agonize, originally had nothing to do with the duress or anguish these words now convey.
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