validly

comparative more validly · superlative most validly

1. In a valid manner.

   Only a complete pacifist could validly condemn militariness.

   1969, Walter Alfred Peter Phillips, The tragedy of Nazi Germany

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   Presently there were bishopesses as well as priestesses, splendidly arrayed in chasubles and diadems. These were, from a strictly canonical point of view, the first validly ordained women priests.

   2003, Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans