Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for OB-SE'QUI-OUS-LY
OB-SE'QUI-OUSOB-SE'QUI-OUS-NESS
OB-SE'QUI-OUS-LY, adv.
- With ready obedience; with prompt compliance. They rise and with respectful awe, / At the word given, obsequiously withdraw. Dryden.
- With reverence for the dead. [Not used.] Shak.
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