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sillyly

adv

Etymology

From silly + -ly.

  1. inherited from *sālīg✻
  2. inherited from sǣliġ
  3. inherited from seely
  4. suffixed as sillyly — “silly + ly”

Definitions

  1. Obsolete spelling of sillily.

    • […]: and that the soule it selfe is but sillyly looked to, while the bodie is in price, and to much borne with, as is generally seene:[…]
    • Reader be pleaſed to view over theſe two Accounts (touching the Controverſy between Tho. Hicks and John Story) that It may be underſtood how Sillyly Tho. Hicks came off about his falſe Charge againſt the Quakers,[…]
    • So some that passe for Deepe Astrologers / Have made great Princes Presents of New-stars, / As Virtuosos sillyly have don / And giv’n away whole Ilands in the Moon:[…]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA