Where does courteously come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

courteously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

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"His Third Query is a Frank Proposal, without any more ado, of taking all the Church Lands into the Crown; and Courteously he offers the Poor Cavaliers a Snip in the Booty"
""Perhaps they eat too much." He said it with the air of one courteously offering a helpful suggestion."

From Middle English curteisly, curteisliche; equivalent to courteous + -ly.

more courteously (comparative) most courteously (superlative)

politely

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