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uprightly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English upright Middle English -ly English -ly English uprightly From upright + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an upright manner.
   • This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it. 1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, London: Saunders & Otley, page 155:
   • Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 15:21:
   • Howbeit there were some good walkers among them that walked in the king's highway ordinarily, uprightly, plain Dunstable way; and for this purpose I would show you an history which is written in the third of the Kings. 1844, Hugh Latimer, Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer, Associated University Presse, →ISBN, page 71:
   • Began I, even as he who yearneth after, Being in doubt, some counsel from a person Who seeth, and uprightly wills, and loves: 1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, volume III (Paradiso), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

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