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English
Etymology
From gospel + -y.
Adjective
gospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)
- Resembling gospel music
2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, published 2000, page 539:When we reach the piano, Ormus sits down and starts to play a slow, haunting gospelly tune.
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, UNC, published 1989, →ISBN, page 129:The Ceremonies cease, but yet the Creede / Contained therein, continues gospelly, / That make my feeble Spirits will grow frim.