adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an affirmable manner.

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  † 1.  Affirmatively, positively. Obs.

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1470.  Harding, Chron., lxix. I cannot wryte of suche affirmably [v.r. affirmandlye].

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1489.  Caxton, Faytes of Armes, II. vi. 102. The Lacedemonyens had ordeyned affirmably that they shulde kylle and slee al the men and women.

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  2.  ‘In a way capable of affirmation.’ Todd, 1818.

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