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6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adverb in a keen and discriminating manner
originFrom Middle English kenely, kenliche, from Old English cēnlīċe (“keenly, boldly, courageously”), equivalent to keen + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian köinlik (“boldly”), archaic German kühnlich (“bravely”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0