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† all-utterly, adv. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 al vtterly, alouterly, 5–6 aluterlie, 5–7 alluterlie, -ly.
[See all C 6, and utterly. After Wyclif and Chaucer, apparently retained only by Scottish writers.]
Wholly, entirely, completely; wholly and utterly, absolutely.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. (1868) 109 Þei ne were nat alouterly vnknowen to me. c1400Apol. Loll. 54, I a cord in no þing wiþ him, but al vtterly we are contrari. a1423James I King's Q. iv. vi, Gif thy lufe be set alluterly Of nyce lust. 1513Douglas æneis iv. vi. 99 Aluterlie dissauit or dissolate. 1582–8Hist. James VI (1804) 204 This was alluterly refuisit be the capitane. 1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 387 To root out, destroy, alluterlie subvert all monuments of idolatrie. |