corruptly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English corrupt Middle English -ly English -ly English corruptly From corrupt + -ly.

1. In a corrupt manner.

   “More North-eaſt, where wild brookes meeting together make a broad poole among the parkes, and ſo ſoone as they are kept in with bankes runne in a chanell, is ſeated Kenelworth, in times paſt commonly called Kenelworde, but corruptly Killingworth: […]”

   “Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.”