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- adverb In a
kindly manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In any case, it ought to be spelt "gingerlily", on the model of SOED-attested "kindlily".
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I must withdraw my suit warily, -- firmly, of course, yet very kindlily, you understand, so as to grieve her no more than must be.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918
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But beyond these things the sun was dying out in a riot of colour, and its level rays fell kindlily upon the gaunt pines that were thick about us two, converting them into endless aisles of vaporous gold.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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He waited thus for a long while, because he was not used to find chance dealing kindlily with him.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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He waited thus for a long while, because he was not used to find chance dealing kindlily with him.
The Certain Hour 1909
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And one thinks rather kindlily of _The Queen Pedauque_ as Dumas would have equipped it ...
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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_Father_ right kindlily, laying of his hand on my shoulder.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"It was not, perhaps, without the spur of some latent solicitude," she writes in the "Memoirs" of her father, "that Dr. Burney made this first visit to them abruptly, at an early hour, and when believed far distant; and if so, never were kind doubts more kindlily solved; he found all that most tenderly he could wish - concord and content; gay concord and grateful content.
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Lord of _Oxenford_ hath loosed thee from thine obligations, yet he speaks very kindlily of thee, as of a servant [Note 3] whom he is right sorry to lose. "
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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