FAIRLY

adv.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
adv.

In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

2.
adv.

Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.

3.
adv.

Honestly; properly. Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp. Hawthorne.

4.
adv.

Softly; quietly; gently. [Obs.] Milton.


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