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docilly

docilly is the alternative form of docilely.

Meaning of docilely

Adverb

docilely (comparative more docilely, superlative most docilely)

  1. Submissively or obediently.
    • My uncle returns to his mess of papers, dismissing us; and I go docilely back to my sewing.2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 7, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 2, page 194

Forms of docilly

comparativemore docilly
superlativemost docilly

Questions about docilly

What is docilly the alternative form of?
Docilly is the alternative form of docilely.

Words near docilly in the dictionary

  1. docilization
  2. docilize
  3. docilized
  4. docilizes
  5. docilizing
  6. docilly
  7. docimacy
  8. docimasia
  9. docimasies
  10. docimastic
  11. docimastical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: docilly (page history and authors); docilely (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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