adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a courageous manner; with courage; valiantly, bravely, boldly, fearlessly.

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1477.  Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 21. Exorte thy people as courageousely as thou can.

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c. 1500.  Melusine, xxiv. 176. [They] courageously rane vpon þeire enemyes.

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1576.  Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 391. Howe terrible a thing it was, that he so couragiously attempted.

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a. 1672.  Wood, Life (1848), 114. Then Holloway … required of them admission … which the fellows did all coragiously denie.

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1702.  W. J., trans. Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, xi. 43. Martyrs who so courageously laid down their Lives in the Defence of the Faith.

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1847.  Mrs. A. Kerr, Hist. Servia, 315. The Servians … defended themselves most courageously.

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