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distinctly

/dɪˈstɪŋktli/ adverb B1
  1. In a distinct manner. · I distinctly remember the voice of my deceased grandmother.
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His eyes acquired that quality which in the first moment of strong emotion enables them to see distinctly, and which afterwards fails from being too much taxed.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1069 · C1
I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 1 · B2
I can distinctly remember that as we did so there came three chimes from a neighbouring clock.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 65 · B2
I distinctly saw the gleam of it as he turned to run.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 84 · B2

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