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comparative justlier or more justly, superlative justliest or most justly
In a just or fair manner; rightfully. quotations examples
His valor, wisdom, and justice made him justly popular, but caused him to be regarded with suspicion at Rome.
1890, Robert Franklin Pennell, History of Rome
With a just or fair use of language; with good reason, properly. quotations examples
But the city on the River Clyde can justly claim to have turned the tide.
2012, Jay Newton-Small, ‘Gangless in Glasgow’, Time, 1 Oct 2011
(obsolete) With great precision; accurately, exactly. quotations
It is a pleasant imagination to conceive a spirit iustly ballanced betweene two equall desires.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]