adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] Bravely, valiantly.

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1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., III. ii. 125. Ile pay’t as valorously as I may, that sal I suerly do.

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c. 1614.  Sir W. Mure, Dido & Æneas, I. 549. The Trojans val’rowsly resist their force.

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1675.  trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., II. 239. Which they valorously and stoutly performed, wounding James himself.

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1760–73.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), II. 21. [He] pushed valourously forward.

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1834.  Pringle, Afr. Sk., viii. 287. Supposing it to be a crocodile, they valorously determined to shoot it.

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1882.  Macm. Mag., XLVI. 251. The order was valorously obeyed.

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