throughly

adv

throughly

adv

UK, US /ˈθɹuːli/

Etymology From through + -ly.

1

Archaic Thoroughly, completely.

  • The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  • The next advantage / Will we take throughly.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
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  • Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 51:2:

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