validly
adv/ˈvælɪdli/
Etymology From valid + -ly.
1
In a valid manner.
- Only a complete pacifist could validly condemn militariness.1969, Walter Alfred Peter Phillips, The tragedy of Nazi Germany:
- Presently there were bishopesses as well as priestesses, splendidly arrayed in chasubles and diadems. These were, from a strictly canonical point of view, the first validly ordained women priests.2003, Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans:
- Antonyms
- invalidly