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Webster 1913 Edition


Redly

Red′ly

,
adv.
In a red manner; with redness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Redly

RED'LY

,
adv.
With redness.

Definition 2024


redly

redly

English

Adverb

redly (comparative more redly, superlative most redly)

  1. In a red manner.
    • 1948, Edward Elmer Smith, Triplanetary : a Tale of Cosmic Adventure
      Beams, rods, and lances of energy flamed and flared; planes and pencils cut, slashed, and stabbed; defensive screens glowed redly or flashed suddenly into intensely brilliant, coruscating incandescence.
    • …you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon…
    • 1994, John Donnelly, Language, Metaphysics, and Death, Fordham Univ Press (ISBN 9780823215829), page 208
      But there are still two alternative interpretations of such expressions as "sensing red" or "sensing redly." (i) We might define "sensing redly" in such a way that our definiens makes explicit reference to things that are red.

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