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English

Etymology

From deedy + -ly.

Adverb

deedily (comparative more deedily, superlative most deedily)

  1. Industriously; diligently.
    • 1816, Jane Austen, Emma:
      The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforté.
    • Kenneth H. Ashley, Eyes on the Wolds, in: 1923, Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, The London Mercury (volume 9)
      The fields are very spacious and the views are very wide, / And steadily and deedily the little horses go: []
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