Thrivingly

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  † 1.  In a worthy or honorable manner; also, excellently, finely. Obs.

13[?].  St. Erkenwolde, 47, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 267. A throghe of thykke stone, thryuandly hewene.

13[?].  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1080. Now I þonk yow þryuandely þurȝ alle oþer þynge.

a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 3747. Scho lengis in oure burȝe, And is oure thewis of oure thede thryfandly enfourmed.

c. 1470.  [see THRILL sb.²].

  2.  Prosperously, successfully, flourishingly.

1745.  H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann (1834), II. 22. Our coalition goes on thrivingly.

1833.  Fraser’s Mag., VII. 571. May my poor silly sheep go on thrivingly.

1837.  Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), I. xiv. 231. Others … grow thrivingly among brick and stone.

  So Thrivingness rare, thriving condition.

1818.  in Todd.

1864.  Kingsley, Lett. to Mrs. K., in Life (1879), II. 167. Thrivingness and improvement everywhere.

1910.  St. Landry Clarion (LA), 5 Nov., 1/4. If we just had a few more [manufactories] like these, the pay-rolls would increase the thrivingness of the city to a wondrous extent.