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单词 uprightly
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uprightlyadv.

Brit. /ˈʌprʌɪtli/, U.S. /ˈəpˌraɪtli/
Etymology: < upright adj. + -ly suffix2.
1.
a. In a just or upright manner; with strict observance of justice, honesty, or rectitude; sincerely, justly. (Frequently c1560–1590.)
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > rightness or justice > [adverb]
rightlyeOE
reasonablya1325
rightfullyc1325
leefullyc1340
justlyc1384
uprightly1549
conscionably1552
justicely1865
society > morality > rightness or justice > [adverb] > fairly or equitably
evenlylOE
fairOE
egallyc1374
upright1509
equally1526
honestly1526
uprightly1549
squarely1564
square1577
candidly1646
equitably1663
fairly1676
equably1839
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > [adverb]
righteOE
righteouslyOE
justlyc1384
righteousa1400
uprightly1549
upright1601
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts xxiii. f. lxxviv Bearyng my selfe vpryghtely and with a good conscience.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E7v In times past when men dealt vprightly, and in the feare of God.
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. x. 129 Iudge now vprightly if this be indifferent dealing.
1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iv. iii. 27 If you uprightly love her and the prince.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 56 Betwixt the extreams of admiration and malice, 'tis hard to judge uprightly of the living.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Honestly Uprightly; justly.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. 296 The first decemvirs..governed uprightly and well.
1847 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) III. 39 A man who would rule uprightly.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 454 He was sure, he said, that they had acted uprightly.
b. Candidly; straightforwardly. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adverb]
utterly?c1225
entirelya1340
faithlyc1350
without (but) feigningc1380
clearly1389
whollyc1390
unfeigninglyc1400
entirec1430
unfeigneda1469
without coloura1513
honestly1526
singly1526
unfeignedly1526
uncolourably1541
bona fide1542
frankly?1553
sincerely1560
squarely1564
uprightly1565
square1577
single-mindedly1579
undissemblinglyc1585
above board1599
fair and square1604
downright1607
downrightly1632
really1641
uncasuistly1649
honest1654
up tro1654
plain-heartedly1675
unaffectedly1677
straightforwardly1839
wholeheartedly1845
unfallaciously1852
up and down1854
single-heartedly1857
unflatteringly1874
uncynically1895
square on1963
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 340 To declair planelie and uprychtlie the wordis and brute..of the said allegeit conspiracie.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Aug. 53 Gloss. By Perigot who is meant, I can not vprightly say.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 439 All sic as stud uprightlie for the established discipline and fredome of the Kirk.
1620 L. Andrewes Serm. (1629) 130 Besides (to speake vprightly) one might..complaine of the privatenesse of the Angells appearing.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 13 To speak uprightly, from these Nations..have tortures of more exquisite device taken their originals.
2. In an upright position; vertically, perpendicularly. Also figurative and in figurative context.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [adverb] > uprightly
upwardc1290
uprightsa1375
bolt uprightc1405
rect1557
uprightly1601
bolt up1638
erectly1646
up1669
the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > [adverb]
uprightsa1375
branta1400
straight up1535
upon straightc1540
uprightly1601
erectly1646
streck up1790
aprick1856
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 159 He..shall live in this world uprightly and in even ballance, without enclining more to one side, than unto another.
1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 46 You were never known to be drunke, and though you never walke uprightly, yet you never stumbled.
a1718 T. Parnell Posthumous Wks. (1758) 9 The waters were afraid;..In heaps uprightly plac'd they learn to stand.
1751 J. Harris Hermes i. v. 84 These Pronouns..assumed a peculiar Accent of their own, which gave them the name of ὀρθοτονουμέναι, or Pronouns uprightly accented.
1826 in A. C. Hutchinson Pract. Obs. Surg. (ed. 2) 173 But I have watched him,—have seen him..walk..as uprightly as you can walk.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §168 We found that the Sun was not floating uprightly in our sea, the plane of the ecliptic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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