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steadily, adv.|ˈstɛdɪlɪ|
[f. steady a. + -ly2.]
In a steady manner (see senses of the adj.); firmly, unwaveringly, steadfastly, uniformly, etc.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus iii. iii. P ij, Seyng that she [fortune] is but a wandrer, that strayeth from place to place like a vacabunde .i. dothe nothyng stedyly or certainly. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Pressus, Presso gradu incedere, to goe steedily and surely. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. (ed. 2) 202 The remembrance..made their hand shake; by means of which impediment, they could not look steddily through the Glass. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xli, Dorothee, however, steadily refused to do this. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. iii. (1842) 81 When the jars to be graduated are such as cannot stand steadily upon their own bases. 1886Field 4 Sept. 347/2 The pack, working steadily on his [the stag's] line, ran right up to him. 1909J. McCabe Decay Ch. Rome xii. 268 The Catholics have steadily lost ground.
Comb.1891Hardwicke's Science-Gossip XXVI. 1/2 A small but steadily-increasing distance. |