courageously
English
Etymology
courageous + -ly
Adverb
courageously (comparative more courageously, superlative most courageously)
- In a courageous manner; bravely; boldly.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
- Strike vp the Drum and martch corragiouſly,
Fortune her ſelfe dooth ſit vpon our Creſts.
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Translations
in a courageous manner
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References
- “courageously”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- courageously in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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