| 释义 |
holily, adv.|ˈhəʊlɪlɪ|
Forms: see holy a.
[f. holy a. + -ly2.]
1. In a holy manner; with sanctity or devoutness.
c1200Ormin 15920 Forr all þatt tatt teȝȝ halilȝ & dafftiȝ⁓like hemm ledenn. Ibid. 17282 To spellenn haliȝlike, and ec To wirrkenn hallȝhe tacness. 1340Ayenb. 74 Þo þet..lokeþ holyliche hare herten. 1382Wyclif 1 Thess. ii. 10 How hoolily, and iustli, and withouten querel..we weren. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 211 And lyue in chastitee ful holily. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 777 Hire sawle with⁓inne woke than fulle halily. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 58 b, As longe as a persone is holyly occupyed, so longe he prayeth. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. v. 22 What thou would'st highly, That would'st thou holily. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. vii. 236 To act holily and wisely in the highest possible Degree. 1894Athenæum 3 Mar. 276/3 With an eloquent impulsiveness becoming their holily emotional themes.
2. Sacredly, scrupulously, inviolably; solemnly. Now rare or Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. x. 70 (Camb. MS.) See now how þou mayst proeuen holyly and with-owte corupcion this þat I haue seyd. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. v. (R.), But I wil haue matrimony obserued more holyly & vndefyledly among them that professe the new lawe. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. Scotl. (1805) II. 237 If the Scots would most holilie and handfastlie promise. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 41 And those that..had lived intimately with him, do most holily attest, that they were never able to observe any such defects in him. |