handfastly
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handfastly (comparative more handfastly, superlative most handfastly)
- (obsolete) In a handfast manner
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- the Scots would most holilie and handfastlie promise , the English would forthwith depart with a quiet armie