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- adverb rare
Spelling out words fromletters .
Etymologies
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spelling + -ly
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Examples
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Jeames's was a very delicate hand; Miss Flouncy admired it very much, and of course he did not defile it by menial service: he had in a young man who called him sir, and did all the coarse work; and Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies; not spellingly and with hesitation, as many gentlemen do, but easily and elegantly, speaking off the longest words without a moment's difficulty.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Why are all of you so gramatically and spellingly deficient? who fried your brains so could couldn’t make a legit soundind sentence EVER?
College kittehs - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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