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English
Etymology
From glacial + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
glacially (comparative more glacially, superlative most glacially)
- (geology) Through glacial action.
- In a (literally or figuratively) icy manner; icily.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 278:‘Monsieur,’ Louis XV glacially remarked to Choiseul days before the dénouement, ‘I told you that I did not want war.’
- With the speed of a glacier; very slowly.
2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:Played acoustically, glacially paced and sung in Kristofferson’s parched, age-weathered voice, even his more lighthearted songs – Jesus Was a Capricorn, Best Of All Possible Worlds – were leant an eerie gravitas, while Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Coming Down sounded heartbreakingly careworn and poignant.
2018 January 18, Barry R. Bloom, “A neglected epidemic”, in the New England Journal of Medicine, pages 291–3:The daunting problem is that the incidence of tuberculosis has declined only glacially (at a rate of 1.0 to 1.5% per year) and in some places may be increasing.