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notoriously, adv.|nəʊˈtɔərɪəslɪ| [-ly2.] 1. In a notorious manner; as a matter of common knowledge; recognizedly, admittedly.
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 Preamble, It ys openly and notoryously knowen unto all persones of Cristes Religion. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 87 The first part..is by common consent of all the interpreters of Scripture notoriously true. 1650Fuller Pisgah i. vii. 19 Their abode is notoriously known to have been in, and about Jebus or Jerusalem. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 220 That Promontory..being most notoriously Sandy. 1751Narr. Of H.M.S. Wager 126 There was a weekly Inter⁓course notoriously carried on over Land between the Places. 1788Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XII. 254 His ministers (who are notoriously known [to be] under his absolute command). 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 104 Let us confine ourselves to notoriously public transactions. 1881Sat. Rev. LII. 570 The notoriously cleanly living of the vegetarian inhabitants of Western Africa. b. In unfavourable sense.
1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. (1586) i. 45 The in⁓famous, and those which are notoriouslie naught. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 73 He is of no bloudy disposition, nor other⁓wise notoriously vicious. 1677A. Horneck Gt. Law Consid. iv. (1704) 234 A man, that had notoriously betrayed his trust. 1729Berkeley Serm. Wks. 1871 IV. 639 Men of notoriously wicked lives. 1839James Louis XIV, II. 399 He was, in short, notoriously faithless and interested. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 47 His title had notoriously been purchased by his wife's dishonor and his own. 1877Freeman Norm. Conq. II. App. 705 His only references are to Domesday and the notoriously spurious charter. †2. Manifestly, evidently, obviously. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xiv. (Arb.) 139 For euer⁓more this word [alás] is accented vpon the last, and that lowdly and notoriously. 1603Holland Plutarch Mor. 1035 Farre is he off, from being contradictory and repugnant to himselfe so notoriously. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. 1851 IV. 345 His very first page notoriously bewraies him. 1690Baxter Kingd. Christ (1691) ii. 33 The distance between Christs Rising and his Coming to Judgment are so notoriously revealed. |