Definition for SI'LENT-LY

SI'LENT-LY, adv.

  1. Without speech or words. Each silently / Demands thy grace, and seems to watch thy eye. – Dryden.
  2. Without noise; as, to march silently.
  3. Without mention. He mentioned other difficulties, but this he silently passed over. – Locke.

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