Trimly

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a trim manner; neatly, smartly.

    "[W]hen the fight vvas done, / VVhen I vvas dry with rage and extreme toil, / Breathleſs and faint, leaning upon my ſvvord, / Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dreſs’d, / Freſh as a bridegroom […]"

  2. 2
    Effectively, handily, nicely, thoroughly, soundly, well. obsolete

    "And it is sayde both moste trimly and truly in the Epistle to the Hebreues, as we heard afore: If ye be not vnder correction, (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a trim manner wordnet

Etymology

From trim + -ly.

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