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alively

alively adverb: in an alive manner.

Adverb

alively (comparative more alively, superlative most alively)

  1. (rare) In an alive manner.
    • If you doe not yet finde experimentally, the truth of this point; to wit, your conſciences cauſing you to rejoyce in the midſt of your troubles, by alively teſtifying your integrity to you, then by prayer plead your integrity to God, and intreat him ſo tranſcendently to ſecond conſcience, with his...1640, Nicholas Lockyer, A Divine Discovery of Sincerity, According to Its Proper and Peculiar Nature: Very Profitable for All Sorts of Persons to Peruse. First Preached, and Now Published, for the...
    • It has grown to be notable, and thoroughly, alively native.1932, Mary [Hunter] Austin, “The Land of Journey’s Ending”, in Earth Horizon: Autobiography, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page 358

Forms of alively

comparativemore alively
superlativemost alively

Origin of alively

From alive + -ly.

Questions about alively

What does alively mean?
Alively means in an alive manner.
What part of speech is alively?
Alively is an adverb.

Words near alively in the dictionary

  1. aliunde
  2. alive
  3. alive and kicking
  4. alive and well
  5. alive internet theory
  6. alively
  7. aliveness
  8. alivenesses
  9. Alivia
  10. alivincular
  11. Aliwi

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