quaintly

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QUA'INTLY, adverb 1. Nicely; exactly; with petty neatness or spruceness; as hair more quaintly curled. 2. Artfully. Breathe his faults so quaintly 3. Ingeniously; with dexterity. I quaintly stole a kiss.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

More founding-era words: liberty · virtue · republic · justice · providence · commerce · militia · arms · prudence · establishment · religion · usurpation · tyranny · citizen · unalienable · sovereign