FAITHFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faithfully mean? 

• FAITHFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb FAITHFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a faithful manner

  Familiarity information: FAITHFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAITHFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a faithful manner

Synonyms:

dependably; faithfully; reliably

Context example:

it always came on, faithfully, like the radio

Antonym:

unfaithfully (in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner)

Pertainym:

faithful (steadfast in affection or allegiance)

 Context examples 

She lifted up her eyes, and solemnly declared that she would devote herself to this task, fervently and faithfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even when he went away, and her mother was called to devote her skill and energy to Soldiers' Aid Societies, Beth went faithfully on by herself and did the best she could.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He worked faithfully in the harness, for the toil had become a delight to him; yet it was a greater delight slyly to precipitate a fight amongst his mates and tangle the traces.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I begged his patience to hear me tell my story, which I faithfully did, from the last time I left England, to the moment he first discovered me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was very insistent upon this point, and made me promise it faithfully.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When she came back, I addressed the envelope and stamped it, and when Smollet had again faithfully promised to post the address when found, I took my way to home.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had faithfully promised to stay where he was, and we had not a doubt that he would be as good as his word.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Isabella promised so faithfully to write directly.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Madge agreed, and added, And I promise you faithfully that we won't do anything to influence him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)