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alively en · ADV

Etymology

From alive + -ly.

Meanings

1. (rare) In an alive manner.
   • It has grown to be notable, and thoroughly, alively native. 1932, Mary [Hunter] Austin, “The Land of Journey’s Ending”, in Earth Horizon: Autobiography, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page 358:
   • As soon as the new summer came, new green leaves came too and began to cover the village, and the river began to float alively. 1953, Taro Yashima, The Village Tree, published 1972:
   • If you doe not yet finde experimentally, the truth of this point; to wit, your conſciences cauſing you to rejoyce in the midſt of your troubles, by alively teſtifying your integrity to you, then by prayer plead your integrity to God, and intreat him ſo tranſcendently to ſecond conſcience, with his glorious power which worketh in us, that your hearts may be revived under every preſſure for pieties ſake. 1640, Nicholas Lockyer, A Divine Discovery of Sincerity, According to Its Proper and Peculiar Nature: Very Profitable for All Sorts of Persons to Peruse. First Preached, and Now Published, for the Good of Gods Church in Generall., London: […] E. G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, page 155:

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