different between roundly vs fermly

English

From Middle English roundly, roundely, roundliche, equivalent to round +? -ly.

roundly (comparative more roundly, superlative most roundly)

Circularly.
Utterly or thoroughly.
- 1974, Richard Garrett, General Gordon (page 203)
  When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed.
Boldly; openly.
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
  Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake during September, before the pheasant-shooting comes in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert that they are no pheasants at all, but mokos.
Briskly.
Generally.

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