Commendably

adv. [f. as prec. + -LY².]

  1.  In a commendable manner; so as to win commendation; laudably.

1531.  Elyot, Gov., I. vii. Nature seketh … howe in quietnes to be commendably disposed.

1586.  W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 31. He handled them commendably.

1670.  Milton, Hist. Eng., Wks. 1738, II. 67. Edric … challeng’d the Crown, and wore it, though not commendably.

1754.  Richardson, Grandison (ed. 7), VII. 65. To behave commendably in the private life.

1886.  Manch. Exam., 4 Nov., 5/4. The speakers were commendably brief.

  † 2.  In commendation. (Cf. COMMENDABLE 2.)

1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), I. iv. 25. Everything the man said commendably of him came grudgingly.