Meanings
adverbthroughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)
comparative more throughly · superlative most throughly · alternative thruly
- archaicThoroughly, completely.
The next advantage / Will we take throughly.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]2 more examples
The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCWash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 51:2
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