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adv
Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adv
Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully.
Severely (cf. handsomely).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, usually
Qualifier: ironically; beating; punishment; ironically; beating; punishment
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adv
Lavishly, liberally, generously, handsomely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adv
By good fortune, happily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
From well-favoured + -ly.
