adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] Thoroughly (in a bad sense), notoriously, ‘abominably.’

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a. 1600.  John Bon, 81, in Hazl., E. P. P., IV. 10. Ye sing so arantly well, ye make me fal a slepe.

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1692.  L’Estrange, Fables, cccxi. 273 (J.). Funeral Tears are as Arrantly Hir’d-out as Mourning Cloaks.

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1834.  Sir H. Taylor, Artevelde, II. V. iii. That is a heavy falling-off, my friends, And arrantly ill-timed.

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