subtly
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
subtly
- With subtleness, in a subtle manner; with cleverness rather than brute force.
- 1533, Erasmus of Roterdame, “The Thyrde Instruction”, in [anonymous], transl., A Playne and Godly Exposytion or Declaration of the Commune Crede (which in the Latin Tonge is Called Symbolum Apostolorum): And of the .x. Commaundementes of Goddes Law. […], imprinted at London […]: By me Robert Redman, […] [for William Marshall], OCLC 1114134812 ↗, folio 66, verso ↗:
- Nexte cometh Arrius by ſoo muche the more wretched and madde in opynyon, by howe muche he dothe more ſubtely and craftily geue unto Chriſt the body of a man, and taketh from hym the ſowle of a man, [...]
- French: subtilement
- Italian: velatamente, sottilmente, subdolamente
- Portuguese: sutilmente
- Spanish: sutilmente
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