Uprightly

adv. [f. as prec. + -LY².]

  1.  In a just or upright manner; with strict observance of justice, honesty, or rectitude; sincerely, justly. (Freq. c. 1560–c. 1590.)

1549.  Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Acts xxiii. 75. Bearyng my selfe vpryghtely and with a good conscience.

1583.  Stubbes, Anal. Abus., II. (1882), 32. In times past when men dealt vprightly, and in the feare of God.

1624.  Bedell, Lett., x. 129. Iudge now vprightly if this be indifferent dealing.

1649.  Davenant, Love & Honour, IV. iii. 27. If you uprightly love her and the prince.

1668.  Dryden, Dram. Poesy, Ess. (ed. Ker), I. 89. Betwixt the extremes of admiration and malice, ’tis hard to judge uprightly of the living.

1755.  Johnson, Honestly,… uprightly; justly.

1838.  Arnold, Hist. Rome, I. 296. The first decemvirs … governed uprightly and well.

1847.  S. Austin, Ranke’s Hist. Ref., III. 39. A man who would rule uprightly.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. III. 454. He was sure, he said, that they had acted uprightly.

  † b.  Candidly; straightforwardly. Obs.

1565.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 340. To declair planelie and uprychtlie the wordis and brute … of the said allegeit conspiracie.

1579.  E. K., Gloss. to Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Aug., 53. By Perigot who is meant, I can not vprightly say.

1598.  J. Melvill, Diary (Wodrow Soc.), 439. All sic as stud uprightlie for the established discipline and fredome of the Kirk.

1620.  Bp. Andrewes, Serm. (1629), 130. Besides (to speake vprightly) one might … complaine of the privatenesse of the Angells appearing.

1630.  R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 13. To speak uprightly, from these Nations … have tortures of more exquisite device taken their originals.

  2.  In an upright position; vertically, perpendicularly. Also fig. and in fig. context.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 159. He … shall live in this world uprightly and in even ballance, without enclining more to one side, than unto another.

1639.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Part Summers Trav., 46. You were never known to be drunke, and though you never walke uprightly, yet you never stumbled.

a. 1718.  Parnell, Poems (1758), 9. The waters were afraid:… In heaps uprightly plac’d they learn to stand.

1751.  Harris, Hermes, I. v. (1765), 84. These Pronouns … assumed a peculiar Accent of their own, which gave them the name of ὀρθοτονουμέναι, or Pronouns uprightly accented.

1826.  in A. C. Hutchinson, Pract. Obs. Surg. (ed. 2), 173. But I have watched him,—have seen him … walk … as uprightly as you can walk.

1868.  Lockyer, Elem. Astron., § 168. We found that the Sun was not floating uprightly in our sea, the plane of the ecliptic.