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wealthily, adv. Now rare.|ˈwɛlθɪlɪ| Also 6–7 wealthely. [-ly2.] In a wealthy manner.
1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices ii. (1540) 75 That pertayne and avayle a man to lyue well and welthyly. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia i. (1895) 105 All thynges be so well and wealthelye ordered, that vertue is had in pryce and estimatyon. 1567J. Sandford Epictetus Epist. A ij b, That we should be in felicitie and leade our life both well and wealthilie. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 75, I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua. 1614S. Daniel Hymen's Tri. ii. i, And thus they all vnhappy by that meanes Which they accompt would bring all happinesse; Most wealthely are plagu'd, with rich distresse. 1658Whole Duty Man xiv. §25 When out of an eagerness of bestowing them wealthily, they force them to marry utterly against their own inclinations. 1755Johnson, Richly, adv.,..with riches; wealthily. c1885E. Dickinson Poems (1955) III. 1123 Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily When at my very Door are those possessing more, In abject poverty. |