Word Meanings - OBSEQUIOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.

Related words: (words related to OBSEQUIOUSLY)

• WHILST
  While. Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch. Gibbon. The whilst, in the meantime; while. Shak.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• OBSEQUIES
  See OBSEQUY
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• LAMENTINGLY
  In a lamenting manner.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• LAMENT
  To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• COMPLIANTLY
  In a compliant manner.
• UNTIMELY
  Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
• VIRTUOUS
  1. Possessing or exhibiting virtue. Specifically: -- Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. Old Priam's son, amongst them all, was chiefly virtuous. Chapman. Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious;
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• LAMENTIN
  See LAMANTIN
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• EREWHILE; EREWHILES
  Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.