throughly

English

Alternative forms

thruly (nonstandard, U.S.A.)

Etymology

From through +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹuːli/

Adverb

throughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)

(now rare, archaic) Thoroughly, completely.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.7:
  The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, III.2:
  The next advantage / Will we take throughly.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 51:2:
  :
  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.

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