perspicuously
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From perspicuous + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]perspicuously (comparative more perspicuously, superlative most perspicuously)
- With clarity and lucidity.
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing:
- Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one.