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Fairly   /fˈɛrli/   Listen
adverb
Fairly  adv.  
1.
In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. "Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him."
2.
Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign trade.
3.
Honestly; properly. "Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp."
4.
Softly; quietly; gently. (Obs.)





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"Fairly" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a fine memento of the domestic past, and there was a secret chamber where the refugees of this cause or that in other times were lodged in great discomfort. Besides, there was a ghost which was fairly crowded out of its accustomed quarters, where so far from being able to walk, it would have had much ado to stand upright by flattening ...
— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells
... Tried fairly on its own merits, the stupid fiction invented by the doctor produced an effect for which Lord Harry was not prepared. The longer Iris listened, the more strangely Iris looked at him. Not a word fell from her lips when he had done. ...
— Blind Love • Wilkie Collins
... together. By that he meant that a gentleman of his station should not run any risk of appearing as a 'negro trader,' the last word of opprobrium to be slung at a man. So far as I can remember, this rule was well kept and social ostracism was likely to be visited on any one who was fairly suspected of buying or selling slaves for profit. This state of opinion was, I believe, very general among the better class of slave owners in Kentucky. When negroes were sold it was because they were vicious and intractable. Yet there were ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various
... Sue fairly squealed in delight. "Then we'll have a nice ride in that. Wait, Bunker, till I put my doll away, and I'll come with ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... Joe alleged, seven dollars of his hard earnings. This flogging, produced in Joe's mind, an unswerving determination to leave Slavery or die: to try his luck on the Underground Rail Road at all hazards. The very name of Slavery, made the fire fairly burn in his bones. Although a married man, having a wife and three children (owned by Hughlett), he was not prepared to let his affection for them keep him in chains—so Anna Maria, his wife, and his children Ellen, Anna Maria, and Isabella, were shortly widowed ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still


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