adv
Meaning 1
In a consolatory manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2004, Veronica Buckley, Christina, Queen of Sweden, London: Fourth Estate, Part 1, “The Little Queen,” pp. 39-40, Of the younger Oxenstierna brother, Gabriel Gustavsson, now High Steward, she writes that he was well liked and well spoken, but in the natural way of the Swedes, without the burden of much erudition, since he had “only a smattering of Latin.” But he was, she adds consolatorily, “a very good man.”
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