ˈbrilliantly, adv.
[f. brilliant a. + -ly2.]
In a brilliant manner, with brilliant effect; brightly, glitteringly, splendidly.
| [Not in Johnson 1755–73.] 1813 Examiner 22 Mar. 186/1 The last campaign..terminated not only brilliantly but gloriously. 1815 Scribbleomania 33 True star..With radiance poetic, most brilliantly clear. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 615 No other large Irish town is so well cleaned, so brilliantly lighted. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xvi. (1882) 120 He could write and write brilliantly, in clear, terse, and vigorous English. |