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prowdly

prowdly is the obsolete form of proudly.

Meaning of proudly

Adverb

proudly (comparative proudlier or more proudly, superlative proudliest or most proudly)

  1. In a proud manner.
    • And with domes and pinnacles the dreams arose and stood up proudly between the river and the sky, all shimmering white to the morning.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1

Forms of prowdly

comparativemore prowdly
superlativemost prowdly

Origin of prowdly

From prowd + -ly.

Questions about prowdly

What is prowdly the obsolete form of?
Prowdly is the obsolete form of proudly.

Words near prowdly in the dictionary

  1. provulge
  2. prow
  3. prowar
  4. prowd
  5. prowde
  6. prowdly
  7. prowed
  8. Prowell
  9. Prowells
  10. prower
  11. Prowers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prowdly (page history and authors); proudly (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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