In an extremely beautiful, delicate, or finely crafted manner; with great refinement or intensity.
From French 'exquisite,' derived from Latin 'exquisitus' meaning carefully sought out or selected. The '-ly' suffix transforms the adjective into an adverb. The word originally described things that were laboriously searched for and carefully chosen.
Exquisitely comes from Latin words meaning 'carefully searched out'—so when something is exquisitely beautiful, it's not just beautiful, it's beautifully in a way that took real effort and precision to create.
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