[f. CAVALIER a. + -LY2.]

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  † 1.  Finely, magnificently, ‘bravely.’ Obs.

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1670.  Lassels, Italy (1697), I. 24. The Gallery of Staggs Heads is a stately Room; than which nothing can be more Cavalierly furnished.

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  2.  With haughty carelessness, disdainfully.

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1718.  Free-thinker, No. 76. 147. Pamphilus … engages in Friendships, and in Enmities, very Cavalierly.

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1768.  Goldsm., Good-n. Man, IV. i. You treat me very cavalierly.

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1826.  Disraeli, Viv. Grey, I. v. 10. He bowed cavalierly to Mr. Dallas.

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1864.  H. Spencer, Illustr. Univ. Progr., 377. Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution.

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