Meanings
adverbhandfastly (comparative more handfastly, superlative most handfastly)
comparative more handfastly · superlative most handfastly
- obsoleteIn a handfast manner
the Scots would most holilie and handfastlie promise , the English would forthwith depart with a quiet armie
1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC
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handfastly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handfastly
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“handfastly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handfastly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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