deliverly
English
Etymology
deliver + -ly
Adverb
deliverly (comparative more deliverly, superlative most deliverly)
- (obsolete) actively; quickly; nimbly
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Swim with your bodies, / And carry it sweetly and deliverly.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deliverly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)