adv. [f. FRIENDLY a. + -LY2.] In a friendly manner, like a friend.
1680. Earl Rochester’s Will, in Wills Doctor’s Comm. (Camden), 140. Soe long as my wife shall remaine unmarried and friendlily live with my mother.
c. 1728. Earl of Ailesbury, Mem. (1890), 651. Walking one day in the Marquis de Prie’s garden after dinner, we discoursed friendlily on several subjects.
1829. S. Turner, Mod. Hist. Eng., III. II. xi. 356. The timid Jane of the preceding day was now so completely transformed into the determined queen, that she sent the two nobles, whom she had already selected to be her trusted messengers, to him, to persuade him not to go to Sion House to imbibe the resentments of his parent, but to come back friendlily to her.
1883. Miss Broughton, Belinda, I. vii. So through the noisy white mill they go, nodding friendlily to the powdery miller as they pass.
