Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a wealthy manner; in the midst of wealth; richly.

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

  • adverb In a wealthy manner; richly.

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  • adverb In a wealthy way.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with riches

Etymologies

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wealthy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • If genuine wealthy backers were out there, yearning to back me wealthily, was I to turn up my nose at them?

    Why Sarah Palin and I Aren't Running By Peter Jeffrey 2011

  • Oliver Bolingbroke, tall, lean and wealthily civilised, made a slow visual traverse of the pink rose-bud wallpaper, the linoleum on the floor, the peacock blue satin cushions on the rusty-brown chairs, the unlined floral curtains at the window.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • Why not spend my time trying to get $100,000 out of one very wealthily reader or corporation?

    PvPonline » 2008 » January » 12 2008

  • Why not spend my time trying to get $100,000 out of one very wealthily reader or corporation?

    PvPonline » Archive » Shop Talk: Ten Dollars 2008

  • O, of an incredible masse of treasure, a kingly portion, yet, in his coffers remayning: if then he had, (or late) before any warres, seeing no notable taxe, or contribution publike is historically mentioned to haue bene for the charges leuied: if in peace he himselfe flourished so wealthily: O marueilous politicall,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Oliver Bolingbroke, tall, lean and wealthily civilised, made a slow visual traverse of the pink rose-bud wallpaper, the linoleum on the floor, the peacock blue satin cushions on the rusty-brown chairs, the unlined floral curtains at the window.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • This sort of people have a certain pre-eminence, and more estimation than labourers and the common sort of artificers, and these commonly live wealthily, keep good houses, and travel to get riches.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • She was wealthily dressed; she had a jewelled purse that had probably cost at least three thousand dollars; there were jewelled buckles on her patent-leather shoes, that had Chinese-yellow heels; and she was wearing a jade necklace that almost bankrupts me to think about.

    Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

  • Seated in a large and wealthily furnished drawing room by a bright fire, writing at a neat little table, sits Helen, now no longer Helen Winston but Mrs. Lincarrol.

    Daisy Ashford: Her Book Daisy Ashford 1926

  • Whether they lived happily ever afterwards is not stated, but they lived, at any rate, “wealthily.”

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

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