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\Down"right`\, adv.
1. Straight down; perpendicularly.
2. In plain terms; without ceremony.
We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. --Shak.
3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]
She fell downright into a fit. --Arbuthnot.
\Down"right`\, a.
1. Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he
spoke in his downright way.
A man of plain, downright character. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as,
downright atheism.
The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
--South.
Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright
insanity. --Prescott.
-- {Down"right`ly}, adv. -- {Down"right`ness}, n.
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