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Livelily

Livelily \Live"li*ly\, adv. In a lively manner. [Obs.]
--Lamb.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
livelily

1550s, from lively + -ly (2).

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livelily

adv. In a lively manner.

Usage examples of "livelily".

And I am the more induced to believe he wrote it about that time, because he had then the opportunity to converse with those living characters of rebellion, nonsense, and hypocrisy, which he so livelily and pathetically exposes throughout the whole work.

You may imagine what was my surprise when I saw him walking about hand in hand with Vardalek the next morning, in the garden, talking livelily with him, and showing his collection of pet animals which he had gathered from the woods, and for which we had had to fit up a regular zoological gardens.