adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an exalted manner or degree; in a high style; also, with exaltation or excitement.

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1790.  G. Walker, Serm., II. xviii. 51. No one can think exaltedly of God, and think meanly of man, who is the work of God.

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1852.  Blackw. Mag., LXXI. 747. One does not require to dine exaltedly in order to dine well.

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1855.  Dickens, in J. Forster, Life (1874), III. 122. Old Lemaitre plays his famous character, and never did I see anything, in art, so exaltedly horrible and awful.

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1887.  T. Hardy, Woodlanders, II. xvii. 323. ‘I knew I was right!’ said Grace exaltedly.

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