UPRIGHTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uprightly mean? 

• UPRIGHTLY (adverb)
  The adverb UPRIGHTLY has 2 senses:

1. in an honorable manner

2. in an upright position

  Familiarity information: UPRIGHTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPRIGHTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an honorable manner

Synonyms:

honorably; uprightly

Context example:

he acted honorably

Pertainym:

upright (of moral excellence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an upright position

Pertainym:

upright (in a vertical position; not sloping)

 Context examples 

Would he have persevered, and uprightly, Fanny must have been his reward, and a reward very voluntarily bestowed, within a reasonable period from Edmund's marrying Mary.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the village school I found you could perform well, punctually, uprightly, labour uncongenial to your habits and inclinations; I saw you could perform it with capacity and tact: you could win while you controlled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So the young pair shook hands upon it, and then paced happily on again, feeling that their pleasant home was more homelike because they hoped to brighten other homes, believing that their own feet would walk more uprightly along the flowery path before them, if they smoothed rough ways for other feet, and feeling that their hearts were more closely knit together by a love which could tenderly remember those less blest than they.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)