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Elegantly vs Sprucely - What's the difference?

elegantly | sprucely |

As adverbs the difference between elegantly and sprucely

is that elegantly is gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style while sprucely is in a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.

elegantly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

    sprucely

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.
  • * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby
    • 'Ah ! Hawk,' said one very sprucely dressed personage in a Newmarket coat, a choice neckerchief, and all other accessories of the most unexceptionable kind.