grandly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English grand Middle English -ly English -ly English grandly From grand + -ly.

1. In a grand manner.

   “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 […]”

   ““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!””

2. To the greatest extent.

   “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.”

   “The world had appreciated what he had done, and had put much to his credit, and he was prepared to draw upon this grandly.”