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Webster 1913 Edition
Throughly
Through′ly
,adv.
Thoroughly.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
Wash me
throughly
from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2.
To dare in fields is valor; but how few
Dare to be
Dare to be
throughly
valiant to be true? Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Throughly
THROUGHLY
,adv.
1.
Without reserve; sincerely.[For this, thoroughly is now used.]
Definition 2024
throughly
throughly
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Alternative forms
- thruly (nonstandard, U.S.A.)
Adverb
throughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)
- (now rare, archaic) Thoroughly, completely.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.7:
- The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, III.2:
- The next advantage / Will we take throughly.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Psalms 51:2::
- Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.7: