adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an acquiescent manner; with silent assent.

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1697.  Humfrey, Right of God, III. 37. Mr. Samuel Cradock … falls in with Sir Charles, and acquiescently receives the same Notion from him.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, D. Deronda, VII. lii. 493. Mirah smiled acquiescently, but had nothing to say.

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