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throughly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈθɹuːli/ (UK, US)

Etymology

From through + -ly.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Thoroughly, completely.
   • Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 51:2:
   • The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • The next advantage / Will we take throughly. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

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