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directly (adv.)
late 14c., "completely;" early 15c., "in a straight line," also, figuratively (of speaking or writing) "clearly, unmistakably, expressly," from direct (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "at once, straightway, immediately in time" (c. 1600) is from earlier sense of "without intermediate steps" (1520s).
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