richly
/ˈɹɪt͡ʃli/ adverb C1- In an attractive or manner; full of colour or detail.
- In a manner that occupies the non-visual senses; flavourfully, deeply.
- Done advantageously, done as to be wealthy.
- Thoroughly, totally; in an ample manner. · a richly deserved comeuppance
Comparative richlier · Superlative richliest
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His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
A Kite saw him and exclaimed: “You richly deserve your fate; for a bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea.”
A part of the good abbé’s words, however, were wholly incomprehensible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener, and gave fantastic glimpses of new horizons, enabling him justly to estimate the delight an intellectual mind would have in following one so richly gifted as Faria along the heights of truth, where he was so much at home.
“If it were merely a fine house richly furnished,” said she, “I should not care about it myself; but the grounds are delightful.
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