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overtly, adv.|ˈəʊvətlɪ|
[f. overt a. + -ly2.]
In an overt manner.
1. Openly, manifestly, without concealment or secrecy; in quot. 1614, Outwardly, publicly.
c1325Metr. Hom. 137 Us au to thinc na ferlye Thoh Godd it warnes ouertlye. 1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf D v, The king could not, for bewraying that counsail, declare his wyll ouertly. 1614Raleigh Hist. World Pref. C j b, For whatsoeuer hee ouertly pretended, Hee held in secret a contrary councell with the Secretarie. 1703Young Serm. II. 389 Good men are never overtly despised, but that they are first calumniated. 1859Times 2 Sept. 1st Leader §1 A position with which no European Power could overtly quarrel.
†2. So as to be or lie open. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny I. 525 The plot wherin you mean to haue Chestnuts grow must be ouvertly broken vp aloft, from between Nouember and Februarie. |