What does "fairly" mean?
Fairly: Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.
Additional senses
- 2.Honestly; properly. Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp. Hawthorne.
- 3.Softly; quietly; gently. [Obs.] Milton.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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