scholarly
pronunciation
How to pronounce scholarly in British English:
UK [ˈskɒləli]
How to pronounce scholarly in American English:
US [ˈskɑːlərli]
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- Adjective:
- characteristic of scholars or scholarship
Word Origin
- scholarly (adj.)
- 1630s, from scholar + -ly (1). Related: Scholarliness.
Example
- 1. To the scholarly secular enquirer , certainty about the historical jesus is elusive
- 2. Clear-eyed , sympathetic and scholarly , she spreads the whole canvas , alive with incident and detail , with places and people .
- 3. Like crab grass and kudzu , misguided notions are frustratingly resilient , hard to stamp out no matter how much trouble they have caused in the past and no matter how many scholarly studies have undermined their basic claims .
- 4. To the scholarly secular enquirer , certainty about the historical jesus is elusive .
- 5. Fans will find plenty to sustain them in this poignant coda to a life marked by great feats of penmanship , scholarly insight and contemporary polemic .