throughly

English

Alternative forms

• thruly (nonstandard, U.S.A.)

Etymology

From through +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹuːli/

Adverb

throughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)

1. (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.