Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • White; pale.

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

  • adjective obsolete Like, or coming near to, white.

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  • adjective obsolete White; pale.
  • adverb In a white manner.

Etymologies

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white +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A filled tooth on a hill whitely shining, and a mole in a trap one early June, around its neck a wedding ring.

    Cemetery Moles 2009

  • After what seemed five minutes, though it could not have been more than a minute, I saw him flaming whitely upward.

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • A filled tooth on a hill whitely shining, and a mole in a trap one early June, around its neck a wedding ring.

    Cemetery Moles 2009

  • Then out of nowhere, overhead, I saw the same red airplane I had seen earlier, except this time it was fighting hard against the wind, its wings buffeting, its landing lights sparking whitely.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Every morning you can barely get to your hygeine station to wipe off the smut of the night and rinse whitely into my sparking burst of bristles.

    You, tool . . . 2008

  • Under glass chandeliers they float whitely over Europe's largest mall, a monument to old-fashioned walk-in-and-browse shopping.

    One-click wonder: the rise of Net-a-porter 2010

  • A few days later, in their Birmingham clinic/studio, a set lit so whitely it feels like a 1960s vision of heaven, I meet John.

    Why Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies is in rude health 2010

  • Then out of nowhere, overhead, I saw the same red airplane I had seen earlier, except this time it was fighting hard against the wind, its wings buffeting, its landing lights sparking whitely.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • We sank our butter knives into the large lump of opaque, garlicky white salo, the lard spread that gleamed whitely from a glazed saucer of hardened clay next to the woven-straw bread basket.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Then out of nowhere, overhead, I saw the same red airplane I had seen earlier, except this time it was fighting hard against the wind, its wings buffeting, its landing lights sparking whitely.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

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