Meaning of Elizabethanly | Babel Free

Definitions

In an Elizabethan manner.

Examples

“It might be Elizabethanly rendered, “How absolute the knave is.””

“A terrific energy speaks out in fierce social criticism directed against perjurers, extortioners and unjust, swindling tax-gatherers, bargainers and lovers of simony; against hazarders and dicers, ‘kirk-chatterers’, slanderers and backbiters; against women, with their moods and hypocrisies, their vanity and exaggerated dress with horns on their heads (shared, to speak Elizabethanly, by their husbands), against male dandies, servants who don’t know their due place, toss-pots or ‘ale-sitters’, and lechers with their ‘Janets of the stews’.”

“The innocent saved by the innocent, we may say; or, more likely (and certainly more Elizabethanly), the knaves caught out by the fools.”

“However much Sir John chooses—from some point of view that is anarchic or democratic or Elizabethanly aristocratic—to feel himself outside or even above Hal’s royalty, he depends on it, just as he does on the Prince’s youth.”

“Smile more often at strangers, my mother writes in the meticulous and Elizabethanly black penmanship for which she received excellent marks at Alexander Muir Elementary School in downtown Toronto, Ontario, circa 1934.”

“Apparently, neither the lawyers, the paralegals, nor the support staff were accustomed to having unaccompanied guests walking through the offices, but Rocky and Lauren just smiled at the people who stared at them with puzzled looks on their faces, sometimes waving, Elizabethanly, as if he and Lauren were visiting royalty.”

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