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validly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈvælɪdli/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin validusder. Middle French validebor. English valid Middle English -ly English -ly English validly From valid + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a valid manner.
   • Presently there were bishopesses as well as priestesses, splendidly arrayed in chasubles and diadems. These were, from a strictly canonical point of view, the first validly ordained women priests. 2003, Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans:
   • Only a complete pacifist could validly condemn militariness. 1969, Walter Alfred Peter Phillips, The tragedy of Nazi Germany:

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Antonyms

invalidly