validly

From valid + -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvælɪdli/

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validly (comparative more validly, superlative most validly)

1. In a valid manner.
   • 1969, Walter Alfred Peter Phillips, The tragedy of Nazi Germany:

     Only a complete pacifist could validly condemn militariness.

   • 2003, Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans:

     Presently there were bishopesses as well as priestesses, splendidly arrayed in chasubles and diadems. These were, from a strictly canonical point of view, the first validly ordained women priests.

• invalidly