"stilly" meaning in English

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      "form": "stillier",
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    {
      "form": "stilliest",
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          "ref": "1795, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Eolian Harp, lines 11–12",
          "text": "The stilly murmur of the distant Sea\nTells us of silence.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,",
          "text": "The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare.",
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        {
          "ref": "1879, Anthony Trollope, Thackeray",
          "text": "Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows",
          "text": "Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Stephen King, chapter 4, in The Green Mile, Pocket Books edition",
          "text": "[…] Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.",
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        "silent; calm"
      ],
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          "calm",
          "calm"
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  "word": "stilly"
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  "etymology_text": "still + -ly",
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      "form": "more stilly",
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      "form": "most stilly",
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          "ref": "1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;",
          "text": "She passed away very stilly and painlessly.",
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        {
          "ref": "1902, Mary Johnston, Audrey",
          "text": "The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat",
          "text": "When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board.",
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        "While still and calm."
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    {
      "form": "stillier",
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      "form": "stilliest",
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        {
          "ref": "1795, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Eolian Harp, lines 11–12",
          "text": "The stilly murmur of the distant Sea\nTells us of silence.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,",
          "text": "The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1879, Anthony Trollope, Thackeray",
          "text": "Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows",
          "text": "Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Stephen King, chapter 4, in The Green Mile, Pocket Books edition",
          "text": "[…] Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "text": "She passed away very stilly and painlessly.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1902, Mary Johnston, Audrey",
          "text": "The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat",
          "text": "When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board.",
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        }
      ],
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        "While still and calm."
      ],
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