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doubly

[ duhb-lee ]

/ ˈdʌb li /

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adverb

to a double measure or degree: to be doubly cautious.

in a double manner.

Obsolete. with duplicity.

Origin of doubly

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at double, -ly

Words nearby doubly

doubleword, double‐click, doubling, doubloon, doublure, doubly, doubly armed suture, doubs, doubt, doubtful, doubting thomas

Example sentences from the Web for doubly

First, doubly punishing the aforementioned players would definitely raise howls from their union, the NFL Players Association.

The NFL Is Full of Ray Rices |Robert Silverman |September 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
If people say there loved one is dead, they are doubly traumatizing these people.

The Flight 370 Paradox: How Do You Mourn a Missing Person? |Abby Haglage |March 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Even Shakespeare only earned lasting fame by appealing to Queen Elizabeth (and then doubly so to Queen James).

'Hysterical Literature': Women Who Read Until Orgasm |Rich Goldstein |March 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
As a thirty-six-year-old olive-skinned Puerto Rican woman, Maddy had been doubly lonely since the first week of trial.

The Only Non-White Juror in the George Zimmerman Trial |Lisa Bloom |February 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Beyond that, however, he is doubly affected by his foreignness.

Why Isn’t Idris Elba A Bigger Movie Star? |Rawiya Kameir |November 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
And it's doubly hard when it's about a woman a man once cared for.

The Golf Course Mystery |Chester K. Steele
Musquitoes have disappeared, although I yet keep under a net at night by way of making assurance "doubly sure."

Impressions of America |Tyrone Power
They wasted no precious breath in words, and walking had been doubly difficult for her.

Shock Treatment |Stanley Mullen
The burden is doubly grievous; for it taxes your property, your labour, and gives strength to the elements of disease amongst you.

The Sanitary Evolution of London |Henry Lorenzo Jephson
This was a doubly dreadful thing she had brought on herself.

The Wishing-Ring Man |Margaret Widdemer

British Dictionary definitions for doubly

doubly

/ (ˈdʌblɪ) /

adverb

to or in a double degree, quantity, or measure doubly careful

in two ways doubly wrong