select
verb (used with object)
to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
selectly
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a word derived from
select.
Example Sentences
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Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets, — Prodigal of blue, Spending scarlet like a woman, Yellow she affords Only scantly and selectly, Like a lover's words.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two by Mabel Loomis Todd
To the foregoing purport, the Minister speaking, as directed by the Rubric, to the People, selectly represented in the present instance by G. and G. above mentioned.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Insistently conventional, selectly ordinary, in appearance, the stick with a pig-skin handle hanging from his left arm, he had studied the doll with a deepening interest.
From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
