grandly
English
Etymology
Adverb
grandly (comparative more grandly, superlative most grandly)
- In a grand manner.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]
- 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, quoting Alexander Liberman, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “Take the Concorde. Spend a lot of money. Get yourself there in the most expensive way possible, take pictures over ten times if you need to. Do it all grandly!”
- (rare) To the greatest extent.
- 1892, Anna Laurens Dawes, Charles Sumner[2], Dodd, Mead and Company, page 2:
- But whether or not Sumner was the most typical man of his native commonwealth, he certainly does take a representative place on the bede-roll of her great sons. And on a wider field he does especially and grandly represent the Puritan spirit and the Pilgrim idea, and so the peculiar ethical and political idea of our whole nation.
- 1899, Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline[3], Harper & Brothers, page 2:
- The world had appreciated what he had done, and had put much to his credit, and he was prepared to draw upon this grandly.
- 1902, William Elliot Griffis, A Maker of the New Orient: Samuel Robbins Brown, Pioneer educator in China, America, and Japan: The Story of His Life and Work[4], F.H. Revell, page 102:
- Thus happily unfolding his plans, his work enlarged grandly. He was living in high hopes of spending uninterruptedly the greater part of his life in China.