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  • adverb So as to comply; compliantly; obediently.

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complying +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • If this be the principal rule that guides you, that you will carry it so complyingly, that you will give no offence, -- this is worse than neglecting the rule in the first case: that argues want of sincerity; this is a certain predominancy of hypocrisy.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

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