Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Openly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Archaic Openly; clearly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic
openly ;clearly
Etymologies
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Examples
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So that we may see apertly that if we will be good men, no enemy may not endure against us.
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And they speak of their proper nature, and salute men that go through the deserts, and speak to them as apertly as though it were a man.
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The place of the welles and of the walles and of many other thinges, ben zit apertly sene: but the richesse is voyded clene.
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And forsothe there is a great marveyle: for men may see there the erthe of the tombe apertly many tymes steren and meven,38 as there wern quykke thinges undre.
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The place of the wells and of the walls and of many other things be yet apertly seen, but the riches is voided clean.
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And, forsooth, there is a great marvel; for men may see there the earth of the tomb apertly many times stir and move, as there were quick things under.
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But they allege not the authorities thus in Latin, but in their language full apertly, and say well, that David and other prophets say it.
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And forsothe there is a great marveyle: for men may see there the erthe of the tombe apertly many tymes steren and meven,484 as there wern quykke thinges undre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The place of the welles and of the walles and of many other thinges, ben zit apertly sene: but the richesse is voyded clene.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And childe Leopold did up his beaver for to pleasure him and took apertly somewhat in amity for he never drank no manner of mead which he then put by and anon full privily he voided the more part in his neighbour glass and his neighbour nist not of this wile.
Ulysses 2003
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