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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



... concealments, who never lost time if he could help it. They had not got to the end of the headland where the lighthouse is—Briggs asked her to show him the lighthouse, because the path to it, he knew, was wide enough for two to walk abreast and fairly level—before he had told her of the impression she made ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim
... others are!" Your neighbours would not be silly if you did not admire it. You yourself are part of the mass you are criticizing. On which side do your words go—talk or chatter? Watch yourselves, and see how your words, each day, can fairly be divided ...
— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby
... as the Catamaran had fairly recovered her equilibrium, Snowball condescended to climb aboard. The ludicrous appearance of the negro, as he stood dripping upon the deck, might have excited laughter; but neither Ben Brace, nor his acolyte, nor the little ...
— The Ocean Waifs - A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea • Mayne Reid
... and of that stability for ages of the existing sea-level, which it indicates,—would of itself form one very interesting chapter: its geological history would furnish another. It would probably tell, if it once fairly broke silence and became autobiographical, first of a feverish dream of intense molten heat and overpowering pressure; and then of a busy time, in which the free molecules, as at once the materials and the artisans of the mass, began to ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... nearest portion of the forest, and plunged in at once, holding his fly carefully between finger and thumb, and shouldering his rod so that, as he walked on with the trees clustering thicker and thicker, he drew the top after him, and got on fairly well ...
— The New Forest Spy • George Manville Fenn


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