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boldly

adv
/ˈbəʊldli/UK/ˈboʊldli/US

Etymology

From Middle English boldely, boldeliche, baldeliche, from Old English bealdlīċe (“boldly, earnestly”), equivalent to bold + -ly.

  1. inherited from bealdlīċe — “boldly, earnestly”
  2. inherited from boldely

Definitions

  1. In a bold manner

    In a bold manner; with confidence.

    • to boldly go where no man has gone before
    • Postcards that are billboardlike communications with an immediate message stated boldly and creatively.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at boldly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01boldly02bold03daring04doughty05brave06superiority07superior08courageously

A definitional loop anchored at boldly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at boldly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA