gospelly
English
Etymology
gospel + -y
Adjective
gospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)
- Resembling gospel music
- 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, 2000 ed. edition, page 539:
- When we reach the piano, Ormus sits down and starts to play a slow, haunting gospelly tune.
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Adverb
gospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)
- (archaic, Christianity) In the manner of the Gospel
- 1698, Edward Taylor, “Meditation 25”, in The Poems of Edward Taylor, 1989 UNC ed. edition, →ISBN, page 129:
- The Ceremonies cease, but yet the Creede / Contained therein, continues gospelly, / That make my feeble Spirits will grow frim.
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