facetely
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]facetely (comparative more facetely, superlative most facetely)
- (obsolete) Wittily, pleasantly. [17th–19th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, III.2.2.ii:
- the eyes […] are the chief seats of love, […] as James Lernutius hath facetely expressed in an elegant ode of his […]