Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nimbly; cleverly; jauntily; actively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Actively; quickly; nimbly.
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- adverb obsolete
actively ;quickly ;nimbly
Etymologies
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Examples
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A deliverly fellow was Hughie — could read and write like a priest, and could wield brand and buckler with the best of the riders.
The Monastery 2008
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Then Sir Gawaine deliverly avoided his horse, and put his shield afore him, and eagerly drew his sword, and bade Sir
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The counterfeit villain deliverly fled without any impediment at all, and got him to his bow and arrows, and the rest from their lurking holes with their weapons, bows, arrows, slings, and darts.
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Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Church belike at one blow had birth and death pence and in such sort deliverly he scaped their questions.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly.
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A deliverly fellow was Hughie -- could read and write like a priest, and could wield brand and buckler with the best of the riders.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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They laied wagers with suche as with one thruste of a sworde, woulde paunche or bowell a man in the middest, or with one blowe of a sworde most readily and moste deliverly cut of his heade, or that woulde best perce his entralls at one stroke.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The counterfeit villain deliverly fled without any impediment at all, and got him to his bow and arrows, and the rest from their lurking holes with their weapons, bows, arrows, slings, and darts.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly.
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