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Trimly
adv
Definitions
Adverb
- 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 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 in a trim manner wordnet
Etymology
From trim + -ly.
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