Meaning

(rare) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dove; dovelike..

Example Sentences

She looks like the bright smiling image of Grace. Her eyes are so dovely, Loving, and lovely, […]

Cold, tired, hungry, one half that dovely pair strode sternly up St. Helier's slope, the other half feebly wabbled behind.

Here grows a rare thing — the sword-leaf White Helleborine; and the 'Bee' and 'Fly' orchises in their season, and the commoner Columbine, each of whose pendent blossoms resembles five culvers clinging round the rim of a nest: doves varying in hue from the 'blue rock' to the milk-white pouter — there is something peculiarly archaic in the sculpturing of the lineaments of this dovely plant.

[…] while there up above lay the dead doves, who, before they died, decorously spread out their wings like fans and tucked up their tiny heads, just as Lady Death, the dovely reaper has contrived it ... O Colomba, Colomba, my little dove […]

I shall color the feathers of your dovely wings with rainbows which emanate from the blazing suns of my fiery eyes.

Furthermore, Byron's dove is not nearly so naïve as Coleridge's dovely Christabel, and the reader gets the sense that this carefully invested holy dove might just transcend the ordinary expectations of the human—[…]

Word Forms

• more dovely
• most dovely

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When Should You Use Dovely?

Use dovely when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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