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Primly vs Primely - What's the difference?

primly | primely |

As adverbs the difference between primly and primely

is that primly is in a prim manner while primely is primarily.

primly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a prim manner.
  • * 1949 , Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
    • She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses

    Synonyms

    * (in a prim manner): precisely, properly

    primely

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Primarily.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • it will be primely to the discouragement of all learning, and the stop of Truth, not only by disexercising and blunting our abilities in what we know already, but by hindring and cropping the discovery that might bee yet further made both in religious and civill Wisdome.
  • In a prime manner; very well; extremely; excellently.