eloquently

adverb

el·​o·​quent·​ly

: with eloquence : in an eloquent manner

speaking eloquently

My words, confused as they were, came hotly, eagerly, and eloquently from my heart.

—Wilkie Collins, Basil, 1852

… realizing, as another friend had so eloquently put it recently …, that "life was a part of existence."

—Cyra McFadden, The Serial, 1976

In today's jargon, Mencken, eloquently proclaiming views certain to offend so many, would be called a "polarizing" figure.

—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books, 11 Nov. 2010

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from eloquent + -ly

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