bravely, adv.
(ˈbreɪvlɪ)
[f. brave a. + -ly2.]
1. In a brave manner; valiantly, fearlessly.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 148 He brauely broacht his boiling bloudy breast. 1695 Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. 177 Against whose Power vertue can bravely stand. 1795 Southey Joan of Arc ii. 211 Still we struggled bravely! c 1860 M. Arnold Emped. on Etna ii. i, The..quiet man May bravelier front his life. |
2. In a showy manner; gaily, splendidly, finely, handsomely; = Sc. brawly.
| c 1505 Dunbar Blyth Aberdeen vi, With quhyt hattis all browderit rycht brav[elie] (rime wds. bewtie, sweitlie). 1570 B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iii. (1880) 36 b, Hir Image doe they bravely decke with sumptuous show to sight. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 373 He saw Zacharias come forth bravely mounted. 1636 Davenant Wits (1673) 184 The Chamber's bravely hung. |
3. Worthily, excellently, capitally, well: cf. brave a. 3; also brawly. Chiefly dial.
| c 1600 Rob. Hood (Ritson) ii. xxvi. 72 None of them could pass these men, So bravely they do shoot. 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 198 Here's an excellent place, heere we may see most brauely. 1684 Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1862) 199 He lives bravely where he is. 1864 Atkinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘How do you?’—‘I am quite bravely, thank you’..To get on bravely, is to prosper or ‘speed bravely’. 1874 Blackie Self-Cult. 15 A man may live, and live bravely, without much imagination. 1884 Black Jud. Shaks. xii, The wench looks bravely well. |