Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a holy or devout manner; piously; with sanctity.
- Sacredly; inviolably; sinlessly; purely.
- By holy or righteous means.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.
- adverb rare Sacredly; inviolably.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
holy way; withsanctity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Conceivably, if I were more devout and spent time to wholly and holily understand the religious significance of Hanukkah -- beyond the magical tale of the oil's under-estimated longevity -- I would have more respect for the eight crazy nights.
Danny Licht: Jews for Christmas, or How to Make the Holidays Less Blue Danny Licht 2011
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It is to be done as an artist paints a picture, or writes a poem, with love, holily, a true sacrament of beauty.
CHAPTER II 2010
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Conceivably, if I were more devout and spent time to wholly and holily understand the religious significance of Hanukkah -- beyond the magical tale of the oil's under-estimated longevity -- I would have more respect for the eight crazy nights.
Danny Licht: Jews for Christmas, or How to Make the Holidays Less Blue Danny Licht 2011
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Nor did Mayákin understand as he labored holily with his wayward godson.
Fomá Gordyéeff 2010
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Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom.
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And we are now making the transition into what Catholics call the Liturgy of the Word, which is portion of the mass which is readings from scripture that will culminate with the reading from the Gospel, the life of the Christ, and then the Holy Father's holily that is his sermon.
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Gospels were given us only to teach us to live holily, and not to criticise learnedly.
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Do you not know that up to this moment I will not concede to any man to have lived a better life than I have; since what can exceed the pleasure, which has been mine, of knowing10 that my whole life has been spent holily and justly?
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Let our children share in the instruction which is in Christ, let them learn the strength of humility before God, the power of pure love before God, how beautiful and great is his fear and how it gives salvation to all who live holily in it with a pure mind.
Let us not be fugitives from the will of God Argent 2006
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Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
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