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VISIBLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
So as to be visible
Example:
the sign was visibly displayed
Classified under:
Pertainym:
visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a visible manner
Example:
he was visibly upset
Classified under:
Antonym:
invisibly (without being seen)
Pertainym:
visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)
Context examples:
I did not fail to assure him that I would store these precepts in my mind, though indeed I had no need to do so, for, at the time, they affected me visibly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The frail figure stiffened itself, as though he were visibly bracing himself for an effort.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dislocated joints often are swollen, very painful and visibly out of place.
(Dislocations, NIH)
Thenceforward, he sat all day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence, when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With this, and with my aid, Hands bound up the great bleeding stab he had received in the thigh, and after he had eaten a little and had a swallow or two more of the brandy, he began to pick up visibly, sat straighter up, spoke louder and clearer, and looked in every way another man.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I could frequently distinguish the word Yahoo, which was repeated by each of them several times: and although it was impossible for me to conjecture what it meant, yet while the two horses were busy in conversation, I endeavoured to practise this word upon my tongue; and as soon as they were silent, I boldly pronounced Yahoo in a loud voice, imitating at the same time, as near as I could, the neighing of a horse; at which they were both visibly surprised; and the gray repeated the same word twice, as if he meant to teach me the right accent; wherein I spoke after him as well as I could, and found myself perceivably to improve every time, though very far from any degree of perfection.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The Picture, elegantly framed, came safely to hand soon after Mr. Elton's return, and being hung over the mantelpiece of the common sitting-room, he got up to look at it, and sighed out his half sentences of admiration just as he ought; and as for Harriet's feelings, they were visibly forming themselves into as strong and steady an attachment as her youth and sort of mind admitted.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She improved visibly from day to day, until Martin wondered if he was doing right, for he knew that all her compliance and endeavor was for his sake.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His lips trembled a little, so that the rough thatch of brown hair which covered them was visibly agitated. His tongue even strayed out to moisten them.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
