throughly
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- thruly (nonstandard, U.S.A.)
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Adverb[edit]
throughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)
- (now rare, archaic) Thoroughly, completely.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.7:
- The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, III.2:
- The next advantage / Will we take throughly.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 51:2::
- Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.7: