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deliverly

deliverly adverb: actively, quickly or nimbly.

Adverb

deliverly (comparative more deliverly, superlative most deliverly)

  1. (obsolete) actively, quickly or nimbly
    • Swim with your bodies, / And carry it sweetly and deliverly.1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act...

Forms of deliverly

comparativemore deliverly
superlativemost deliverly

Origin of deliverly

From deliver + -ly.

Questions about deliverly

What does deliverly mean?
Deliverly means actively, quickly or nimbly.
What part of speech is deliverly?
Deliverly is an adverb.

Words near deliverly in the dictionary

  1. delivering the message to Garcia
  2. delivering up
  3. delivering up to
  4. deliverings
  5. deliverism
  6. deliverly
  7. deliverness
  8. deliverology
  9. deliveror
  10. deliverors
  11. delivers

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