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catholicly

catholicly adverb: in a catholic manner.

Adverb (1)

catholicly (comparative more catholicly, superlative most catholicly)

  1. In a catholic manner

Adverb (2) capitalized: Catholicly

Catholicly (comparative more Catholicly, superlative most Catholicly)

  1. In a Catholic manner, in terms of Catholicism; Catholically.
    • […] visited the Archbishop, and after protesting how glas he was to see him there, whom he knew to be Catholicly bent, showed him that his intention in repairing to that country was to deal with the King of Spain about reducing Ireland to his government, whereby heresy might be expelled, and true...1878, Richard Simpson, “Biography of Sir Thomas Stucley”, in The School of Shakspere, volume 1, New York: J. W. Bouton, page 87

Synonyms of catholicly

Forms of catholicly

comparativemore catholicly
superlativemost catholicly
alternative formcatholickly
comparativemore Catholicly
superlativemost Catholicly

Origin of catholicly

From catholic + -ly.

From Catholic + -ly.

Questions about catholicly

What does catholicly mean?
Catholicly means in a catholic manner.
What part of speech is catholicly?
Catholicly is an adverb.

Words near catholicly in the dictionary

  1. catholicizing
  2. Catholick
  3. catholickly
  4. Catholicks
  5. Catholicky
  6. catholicly
  7. catholicness
  8. catholicoi
  9. catholicon
  10. catholicons
  11. catholicos

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