courageously
English
Etymology
From courageous + -ly.
Adverb
courageously (comparative more courageously, superlative most courageously)
- In a courageous manner; bravely; boldly.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
- Strike vp the Drum and martch corragiouſly,
Fortune her ſelfe dooth ſit vpon our Creſts.
Translations
in a courageous manner
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “courageously”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “courageously”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.