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thusly

adv
/ˈðʌs.li/US

Etymology

From thus + -ly, dating from the 19th century, seemingly coined by educated writers to make fun of uneducated persons trying to sound genteel, with a false inference that thus is not an adverb.

  1. inherited from *þus✻ — “so, thus”
  2. inherited from þus — “thus, in this way, as follows, in this manner, to this extent”
  3. inherited from thus
  4. suffixed as thusly — “thus + ly”

Definitions

  1. thus (in this way).

    • Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!
    • His course can only be akkounted for thusly:
    • He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"

  2. thus (therefore)

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