Meanings
adverbdeliverly (comparative more deliverly, superlative most deliverly)
comparative more deliverly · superlative most deliverly
- obsoleteactively, quickly or nimbly
Swim with your bodies, / And carry it sweetly and deliverly.
1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v
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