† witnessfullyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
Evidently, plainly.
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couthlyc900
sutelichec900
openlyOE
witterlyc1175
kithlya1300
witnessfullyc1374
evidentlya1382
plainlya1382
graithc1394
eberlya1400
express14..
manifest1431
patently1441
manifestlyc1475
evident?1520
grossly1526
apparently1533
clear1550
apparent1565
clearly1569
notoriously1589
plain1590
perspicuously1592
perspectively1598
transparently1617
liquidlya1631
visibly1631
obviously1638
fairly1655
perspiculously1661
remarkably1666
squarely1860
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iv. pr. v. 131 In þis wise more clerely and more witnesfully [L. testatius, v.r. apertius] is þe office of wise men ytretid.
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