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Definition of Thusly

1. Adverb. In the way indicated. "Set up the pieces thus"

Definition of Thusly

1. Adverb. (nonstandard) thus (in this way). ¹

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Definition of Thusly

1. thus [adv] - See also: thus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thusly

Literary usage of Thusly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"thusly Few words have a worse reputation among the arbiters of correct usage than thusly. ... The Oxford American Dictionary states flatly that “thusly as a ..."

2. Tanglefoot: An (almost) True Story of Civil Wars and Cities by Richard Miller (2005)
"Swiftly, she stitched some lace onto her bonnet, set the bonnet on her head, adjusted it, and thusly, abruptly, she crossed back into the ranks of the ..."

3. The Jonny-cake Papers of "Shepherd Tom": Together with Reminiscences of by Thomas Robinson Hazard, Rowland Gibson Hazard (1915)
"... and yet this might be maintained thusly:—but I must defer the thusly to my eighth and next Rhode Island jonny-cake paper, as well as the why and the ..."

4. Life and Religion of the Hindoos: With a Sketch of My Life and Experience by Joguth Chunder Gangooly (1860)
"Each widow is required to cook her own food, and to abstain entirely from food and drink two days, aka-thusly, in every month. There are other fasting days ..."

5. Life and Religion of the Hindoos: With a Sketch of My Life and Experience by Joguth Chunder Gangooly, George Edward Ellis (1860)
"Each widow is required to cook her own food, and to abstain entirely from food and drink two days, aka-thusly, in every month. There are other fasting days ..."

6. Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition: Including Practical Exercises in English by Adams Sherman Hill (1902)
"We reason thusly. In each of the sentences under II, the fault consists in the ... thusly figures in the language of the ignorant as well as in that of ..."

7. Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition: Including Practical Exercises in English by Adams Sherman Hill (1902)
"We reason thusly. In each of the sentences under II, the fault consists in e ... thusly figures in the lan- Uige of the ignorant as well as in that of ..."

8. Criminal Types by Vincent Myron Masten (1922)
"thusly we should hold off the habitual from the occasional offender, ... And thusly we should have prisons of last resort manned, as they should be, ..."

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