Covinously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] By collusion; fraudulently.

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1550. Wardmote Laws, in Stow’s Surv. (ed. Strype 1720), II. V. xxii. 423/1. If any have covenously, fraudently, or unduly obtained the freedom of this city.

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1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., Epit. (1612), 387. Pretending … the said Edmund … for his deformitie to bee couinously put besides the Kingdome.

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1848. Arnould, Mar. Insur. (1866), II. III. ii. 712. Every species of fraud and knavery covinously committed.

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