adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  Fearlessly, boldly; with confidence and courage.

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1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., V. ii. 104. Yet feare not thou, but speake audaciously.

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1855.  Motley, Dutch Rep., VIII. (1858), 47. The honor of having battled audaciously … in behalf of human rights.

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  2.  Presumptuously, impudently, shamelessly.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VII. iv. (1632), 205. [He] committed more audaciously those vices.

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1850.  Merivale, Rom. Emp., xxviii. III. 287. He audaciously transmitted a mandate to Rome, requiring that these titles should be acknowledged.

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