Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RIGHT'LY, adv.

1. According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; as, duty rightly performed.
2. Properly; fitly; suitably; as, a person rightly named.
3. According to truth or fact; not erroneously. He has rightly conjectured.
4. Honestly; uprightly. – Shak.
5. Exactly. Thou didst not rightly see. – Dryden.
6. Straightly; directly. [Not in use.] – Ascham.