† unclothedlyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
Without clothes; nakedly.In quots. used in the context of a person's birth or condition before God.
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naked as a worm?a1366
nakedlyc1425
to the skin?1518
in one's (pure) naturals1579
in puris naturalibus1581
unclothedlya1626
puris naturalibus1626
with nothing on1678
uncoveredly1683
in the buff1803
Adamically1860
in the (also one's) altogether1894
in the raw1941
in the nuddy1953
a1626 F. Bacon Ess. on Death in Remaines (1648) 8 Forgetting how unclothedly they came hither, or with what naked ornaments they were arrayed.
1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 67 Where, unclothedly, uncoveredly, nakedly, uncompoundedly,..Hee stood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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