Meanings
comparative more uprightly · superlative most uprightly
- In an upright manner.
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 15:213 more examples
This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.
1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, London: Saunders & Otley, page 155Howbeit there were some good walkers among them that walked in the king's highway ordinarily, uprightly, plain Dunstable way; and for this purpose I would show you an history which is written in the third of the Kings.
1844, Hugh Latimer, Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer, Associated University Presse, →ISBN, page 71Began I, even as he who yearneth after, Being in doubt, some counsel from a person Who seeth, and uprightly wills, and loves:
1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, volume III (Paradiso), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin an honorable manner
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Origin
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