adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a transparent manner or degree; so as to be seen through.

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1617.  Moryson, Itin., III. 81. [Amber] after it is polished, becomes transparantly bright.

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1628.  trans. Mathieu’s Powerful Favorite, 34. It is so minced and subtile, that falshood may be transparently seene through it.

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1667.  H. Stubbe, in Phil. Trans., II. 497. The Sea was black and thick, not transparently blue, as before.

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1851.  Hawthorne, Snow Image, etc., Gt. Stone Face (1879), 39. One enormous pane of glass, so transparently pure.

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1861.  Sat. Rev., 23 Nov., 526. The counter scheme … is much more transparently futile.

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