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MINUTELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minutely mean? 

MINUTELY (adverb)
  The adverb MINUTELY has 1 sense:

1. in minute detailplay

  Familiarity information: MINUTELY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MINUTELY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In minute detail

Synonyms:

circumstantially; minutely

Context example:

our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses

Pertainym:

minute (infinitely or immeasurably small)


 Context examples 


When Lydia went away she promised to write very often and very minutely to her mother and Kitty; but her letters were always long expected, and always very short.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For the group that had both hormone and chemotherapy, the rate was minutely better at 84.3 percent.

(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)

He raised the cork and examined it minutely.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“This is a very singular knife,” said Holmes, lifting it up and examining it minutely.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I tried to calm Ernest; I enquired more minutely concerning my father, and here I named my cousin.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The whole garden has already been minutely examined.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This brief account of the family is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail from Mrs. Thorpe herself, of her past adventures and sufferings, which might otherwise be expected to occupy the three or four following chapters; in which the worthlessness of lords and attorneys might be set forth, and conversations, which had passed twenty years before, be minutely repeated.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She has been unkind to you, no doubt; because you see, she dislikes your cast of character, as Miss Scatcherd does mine; but how minutely you remember all she has done and said to you!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was a subject which ensured Marianne's attention, and she was beginning to describe her own admiration of these scenes, and to question him more minutely on the objects that had particularly struck him, when Edward interrupted her by saying, You must not enquire too far, Marianne—remember I have no knowledge in the picturesque, and I shall offend you by my ignorance and want of taste if we come to particulars.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to attic, we came to the conclusion that the dining-room contained any effects which might belong to the Count; and so we proceeded to minutely examine them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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