adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a faultless manner. † a. Blamelessly (obs.). b. Without flaw or blemish; irreproachably, perfectly.

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1610.  Healey, St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, 124. Giue thus much leaue to a poore woman, in tender affection, faultlesly to bewaile her spouse.

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1856.  Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), II. viii. 245. The fidelity of the clansmen to their leaders was faultlessly beautiful.

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1880.  Ouida, Moths, II. xx. 362. People say so because she is faultlessly made, face and form; they say so, and there is an end.

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1893.  C. H. Herford, in Bookman, June, 83/2. No doubt the translation is faultlessly correct; but then it is identity and not equivalence that is required.

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