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“boldly” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

boldly
audacter, libere; fidenter, confidenter: impudenter; impavide, intrepide; temere; procaciter (-cacius, -cacissime): proterve [SYN. in BOLD]. To behave boldly (= forwardly), procacius se in aliqua re gerere. I say it boldly, audacter dico; libere profiteor.

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What is the Latin word for boldly?
The usual Latin words for “boldly” are audāx, libet, fīdenter; also cōnfīdenter, impudēns, impavidus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.