tranquilly

adv

adv

Etymology From tranquil + -ly.

In a tranquil manner.

When we see a party looking tranquilly up to heaven, unconscious that his body is shot through and through with arrows, we know that that is St. Sebastian.1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “LEARNING THE RUDIMENTS”, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 238:

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