Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Righteously; justly; uprightly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In an upright or just manner.

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  • adverb in an uprighteous or just manner

Etymologies

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uprighteous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person; and much please the absent duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.

    Measure for Measure 2004

  • I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit, redeem your brother from the angry law, do no stain to your own gracious person, and much please the absent duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.

    Act III. Scene I. Measure for Measure 1914

  • I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person; and much please the absent duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.

    Measure for Measure 1604

  • I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person; and much please the absent Duke, if peradventure 195 he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.

    Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

  • [34] The following cases in point appear in Hazard's "Collection of State Papers:" -- "In the meantime, they of Hartford have not onely usurped and taken in the lands of Connecticott, although uprighteously and against the lawes of nations, but have hindered our nation in sowing theire own purchased broken-up lands, but have also sowed them with corne in the night, which the

    Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

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