thorowly
English edit
Adverb edit
thorowly
- Obsolete spelling of thoroughly.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 202:
- To looke into this Businesse thorowly.
References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “thorowly”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.