Scholarly
['skɒləlɪ] or ['skɑlɚli]
Definition
(adj.) characteristic of scholars or scholarship; 'scholarly pursuits'; 'a scholarly treatise'; 'a scholarly attitude' .
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Definition
(a.) Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.
(adv.) In a scholarly manner.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Scholar-like.
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Examples
- Compared with the massiveness of the task, these books do indeed seem poetical and scholarly and flimsy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is a scholarly clergyman, and creditable to the cloth. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He held himself to be, with some private scholarly reservations, a believing Christian, as to estimates of the present and hopes of the future. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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