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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Thoroughly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Completely; wholly; thoroughly.
  • Without reserve; thoroughly; carefully; earnestly.

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

  • adverb obsolete Thoroughly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb archaic Thoroughly, completely.

Etymologies

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From through +‎ -ly.

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