Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SI'LENT-LY
SI'LENT-LY, adv.
- Without speech or words. Each silently / Demands thy grace, and seems to watch thy eye. – Dryden.
- Without noise; as, to march silently.
- Without mention. He mentioned other difficulties, but this he silently passed over. – Locke.
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