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Thuroughly vs Throughly - What's the difference?

thuroughly | throughly |

Thuroughly is often a misspelling of throughly.


Thuroughly has no English definition.

As an adverb throughly is

thoroughly, completely.

thuroughly

Not English

Thuroughly has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

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.