What does silkenly mean?
Silkenly means In a silken manner..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
In a silken manner..
This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.
He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.
[…] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]
Use silkenly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Silkenly means In a silken manner..
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This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.
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