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English
Etymology
From urban + -ly. Piecewise doublet of urbanely.
Adverb
urbanly (comparative more urbanly, superlative most urbanly)
- In an urban manner.
1921, The World’s Work, volume XXXIX, New York, N.Y., page 510, column 1:Rural Britain, except in its picturesqueness, with the peer, the squire and the parson, Giles and Hodge, and their ploughs and their flocks and herds, as objects of the landscape, has been beyond the interests of those within whose vision there are mainly pitheads, chimney-stacks or tramp steamers, of people who are street-bound, of a population whose minds function urbanly and suburbanly.
1923, Samuel G[eorge] Blythe, A Calm Review of a Calm Man, New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 11:Harding is a small-town man. Yet there is more misapprehension concerning Harding among the small-towners than there is among those of his critics who dwell urbanly, save among a certain noisy section who dwell urbanly in the editorial rooms of various daily newspapers. But both urbanly and suburbanly there is plenty.
1953 August 26, “the distinguished Townley alligators”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXII, Los Angeles, Calif., part 1, page 4:each skin meticulously meted and matched, each shoe molded and manipulated almost as if it were a rare sculpture... yet each design of superb simplicity; meant to literally live with you, urbanly-suburbanly, for a long long time.