adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a truthful manner; with truth, truly.

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1827.  National Banner & Nashville Whig, 15 Sept., 1/4. Defying the General truthfully to contradict any of the statements we have made.

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1846.  in Worcester.

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1871.  H. Ainsworth, Tower Hill, III. xix. One question more,… By answering it truthfully, thou may’st escape the rack.

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1892.  Swinburne, Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894), 226. What has been said of Lamb’s or of Landor’s … briefest … notes may as truthfully be said of Hugo’s.

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