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Is gentlemanlyly a word?It is if you wish it so. But, I am confused by your confusion, Nowhere, nowhen, did I write gentlemanlyly, but gentlemanly. Are you referring to it qualifying way? In my ideolect, it is only an adjective. It does get a TsC of 19, or JhIc of 18/19, ( link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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adv : in the manner of a gentleman he was sitting gentlemanly up in the ... taxi -- Saul Bellow
Not for me, though I like Saul's usage, but it's a shoehorned parsnipped word. Not all adverbs end in -ly and not all words which end in -ly are adverbs.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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No, you did not use gentlemanlyly, I did! I was trying to say that gentlemanly, as you used it, didn't sound right to me, although it must be, if you used it that way. And it still doesn't. But I don't know what does, and gentlemanlyly was my "suggestion", although I am sure there is no such word. Don't bother with it; go on with what you were doing...
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I have seen lovelyly in print and my brain was fine with it but when I tried to read it out loud my ears objected. The same for gentlemanlyly.
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parsnipped  Parsed and shortened?
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And a parsnip in a pantry.
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