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Correctly vs Throughly - What's the difference?

correctly | throughly |

As adverbs the difference between correctly and throughly

is that correctly is in a correct manner while throughly is thoroughly, completely.

correctly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a correct manner.

    • Antonyms

    * incorrectly

    throughly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * thruly

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Thoroughly, completely.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.7:
    • The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
  • * c. 1610 , (William Shakespeare), , III.2:
    • The next advantage / Will we take throughly .
  • * :
    • Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.