adv. [f. VERITABLE a. + -LY2.] In a veritable manner; with truth or verity; truly, truthfully; genuinely, really.

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  1481.  Caxton, Godfrey, cxliii. 214. The nombre of them that were slayn was neuer verytably knowen.

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a. 1513.  Fabyan, Chron., I. xxiii. 18. Kymarchus ye sone of Secilius, as some wryters haue, but more veritably as sayth ye olde Cronycle, the brother of Iago was made ruler of Brytayne.

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c. 1532.  Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 927. Veritably, veritablement.

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1567.  Maplet, Gr. Forest, 25 b. They esteeme many things by figure and fanticie, but few veritably and vprightly.

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  1804.  Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), VI. 143. All possible hazard may be precluded, by observing more veritably to the youthful reader, that [etc.].

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1875.  Poste, Gaius, II. (ed. 2), 237. Veritably afterborn, that is to say born after their father has made his will.

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