rankly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English rankli, ronkly, from Old English ranclīċe (“showily; boldly”), equivalent to rank + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic rakklega (“boldly; valiantly”).
Adverb
[edit]rankly (comparative more rankly, superlative most rankly)
- In a rank manner.
- 1907, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, page 22:
- Certainly no pages could seem to the censor more rankly blasphemous.