Etymology

torely

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Today it means: With difficulty; hardly; stoutly; firmly. Full definition →

Middle English torely
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromtorely
  2. English todaytorely

From Middle English torely, torly; equivalent to tore + -ly. More at tore.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.