doubly

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Cardinal: two Ordinal: second Latinate ordinal: secondary Reverse order ordinal: second to last, second from last, last but one Latinate reverse order ordinal: penultimate Adverbial: two times, twice Multiplier: twofold Latinate multiplier: double Distributive: doubly Group collective: both, pair, twosome Multipart collective: doublet, couple, couplet Greek or Latinate collective: dyad Metric collective prefix: double- Greek collective prefix: di-, duo- Latinate collective prefix: bi- Fractional: half Metric fractional prefix: demi- Latinate fractional prefix: semi- Greek fractional prefix: hemi- Elemental: twin, doublet Greek prefix: deutero- Number of musicians: duo, duet, duplet Number of years: biennium

From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double +‎ -ly.[1]

doubly (not comparable)

(usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
- 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 2, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
  Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
In two ways
Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
(obsolete) with duplicity

in a double manner

“doubly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Random House, Inc., 2014 December 2 (last accessed)

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