Handfastly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a handfast manner obsolete

    "the Scots would most holilie and handfastlie promise , the English would forthwith depart with a quiet armie"

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"the Scots would most holilie and handfastlie promise , the English would forthwith depart with a quiet armie"

Etymology

From handfast + -ly.

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