Saturday, September 19, 2015

em'-u-lous-ly, adv. with desire of equaling or excelling.

To remember it, use a word in three sentences. What would you say?

emulouslyadv. with desire of equaling or excelling. 

  1. At the top of page 596 of my 1968 Unabridged, Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Dictionary I found the word emulously, which I never knew before, but felt it's adverbialness to my bones.
  2. Though dashboards are nouns and sit and look pretty, the metrics, also nouns, are set to emulously improve them.
  3. Does opening a Word document or taping a blank piece of watercolor paper to a board imply emulously producing a masterpiece?
p.s., Why is there only one L in equaling and two in excelling? A one l lama is a priest, a two l llama is a beast, a three l llama does not exist. (Ogden Nash)



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