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FAITHFULLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a faithful manner

Example:

it always came on, faithfully, like the radio

Synonyms:

dependably; faithfully; reliably

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

unfaithfully (in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner)

Pertainym:

faithful (steadfast in affection or allegiance)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I am sure, said she, I have no doubt in the world of your faithfully keeping this secret, because you must know of what importance it is to us, not to have it reach his mother; for she would never approve of it, I dare say.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There was once upon a time a soldier who for many years had served the king faithfully, but when the war came to an end could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So the promise was made, and very faithfully did Jim keep it, for many a time when I have wanted him to go fishing or rabbit-snaring, he has remembered that it was his day for Miss Hinton, and has tramped off to Anstey Cross.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the process, they were able to identify ranges in the disc’s mass, its ‘roundness’ (or eccentricity), and forced gradual shifts in its orientations (or precession rate), which faithfully reproduced the outlier TNO orbits.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

I promised them so faithfully!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Wilfully had it disobeyed and won my eyes to speech, and now it was winning my tongue—ay, and my lips, for they were mad this moment to kiss the two small hands which had toiled so faithfully and hard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If ever I can do anything to serve the poor betrayed girl, I will do it faithfully, please Heaven!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He will stay and do his work faithfully as long as he can, and we won't ask for him back a minute sooner than he can be spared.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully as I could.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But my deliverance came sooner than I expected, and in a manner not very common; the whole story and circumstances of which I shall faithfully relate.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)