Bravely

adv. [f. BRAVE a. + -LY².]

  1.  In a brave manner; valiantly, fearlessly.

1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., V. i. 148. He brauely broacht his boiling bloudy breast.

1695.  Ld. Preston, Boeth., IV. 177. Against whose Power vertue can bravely stand.

1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, II. 211. Still we struggled bravely!

c. 1860.  M. Arnold, Emped. on Etna, II. i. The … quiet man May bravelier front his life.

  2.  In a showy manner; gaily, splendidly, finely, handsomely; = Sc. BRAWLY.

c. 1505.  Dunbar, Blyth Aberdeen, vi. With quhyt hattis all browderit rycht brav[elie] [rhyme wds. bewtie, sweitlie].

1570.  B. Googe, Pop. Kingd., III. (1880), 36 b. Hir Image doe they bravely decke with sumptuous show to sight.

1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 373. He saw Zacharias come forth bravely mounted.

1636.  Davenant, Wits (1673), 184. The Chamber’s bravely hung.

  3.  Worthily, excellently, capitally, well: cf. BRAVE a. 3; also BRAWLY. Chiefly dial.

c. 1600.  Rob. Hood (Ritson), II. xxvi. 72. None of them could pass these men, So bravely they do shoot.

1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. ii. 198. Here’s an excellent place, heere we may see most brauely.

1684.  Bunyan, Pilgr., II. (1862), 199. He lives bravely where he is.

1864.  Atkinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v., ‘How do you?’—‘I am quite bravely, thank you.’… To get on bravely, is to prosper or ‘speed bravely.’

1874.  Blackie, Self-Cult., 15. A man may live, and live bravely, without much imagination.

1884.  Black, Jud. Shakes., xii. The wench looks bravely well.