advantageously

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advantageously (comparative more advantageously, superlative most advantageously)

  1. In a manner which provides an advantage; in an advantageous manner.
    • 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: [] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] [], →OCLC, page 106:
      [] ſtill he thought no more than that being ſo young, the largeneſs of his machine (for few men could diſpute ſize with him) made all the difficulty, and that poſſibly I had not been enjoy’d by any ſo advantageouſly made in that part as himſelf; []

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