"lawfully" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English lawfully, lawfulliche, lawefulliche; equivalent to lawful + -ly.",
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      "form": "more lawfully",
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      "form": "most lawfully",
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          "ref": "1781, C. Bathurst, The Modern Part of an Universal History From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, volume 12, page 264:",
          "text": "This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined.",
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          "ref": "2009 September 26, The Associated Press, “Kuwaiti Ordered Released From Guantánamo Bay”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "He was sent to Guantánamo in 2002, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly found that from the beginning of his stay, “there is no evidence in the record that anyone directed any allegations toward al-Rabiah nor any indication that interrogators believed al-Rabiah had engaged in any conduct that made him lawfully detainable.”",
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        "Conforming to the law; legally."
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          "legally"
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          "word": "lawful"
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  "word": "lawfully"
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      "form": "more lawfully",
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