uprightly

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adverb

In an upright manner.

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Meanings

adverbuprightly (comparative more uprightly, superlative most uprightly)

comparative more uprightly · superlative most uprightly

  1. 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 15:21
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    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 155

    Howbeit 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 71

    Began 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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APA

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Chicago

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