august
adjective
inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic.
augustly
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a word derived from
august.
Example Sentences
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The sun and the light had disappeared from the sky and the heavens had grown augustly gray.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
The album opens augustly, with Kris Kristofferson intoning the words to “Forever,” an eight-line poem that Cash wrote in 2003, just weeks before he died.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2018
Their community was Summerlin, a 35-square-mile collection of palm-tree-lined golf courses, $600,000-plus homes and augustly named neighborhoods: Reverence and the Summit, Affinity and Chardonnay.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2017
Notice how augustly the patriotic hero takes his seat in a pew next to his sanely amused, age-appropriate wife, Clemmie, at the wedding of the young Princess Elizabeth to Lt.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016
They thronged round him, bubbling over with the story, while he stood, trim and armed, his hard, neat face arrogant under the sideways-tilted peak of his cap, hearing them augustly.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon
