angelically
advUK /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkli/
Etymology From angelic + -ally or angelical + -ly.
1
In an angelic manner.
- Yet here was this girl, who called him up to the heights of young life again: and a brave girl; and she bled for the weak, had no shrinking from the women underfoot: for the reason, that she was a girl sovereignly pure, angelically tender.1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete:
- Which would you rather be if you had the choicedivinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables:
1 more example
- After hundreds of listens, Odessey and Oracle still sounds like a paragon of poignant psychedelic pop, rendered in orchestral splendor and adorned with indelible melodies that are to cry for, sung in the honeyest of tones by the angelically melancholy [Colin] Blunstone.2017 April 19, Dave Segal, “The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle 50th Anniversary”, in The Stranger, volume 26, number 34, Seattle, Wash., page 37, column 3:
- Synonyms
- angelically, cherubically, seraphically
- Antonyms
- diabolically, infernally
- Related terms
- divinely, heavenly, miraculously
- Hyponyms
- archangelically