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▪ I. † youngly, a. Obs. [OE. ᵹeonglic = MDu. jongelîk, OHG., MHG. junglîch, ON. ungligr: see young a. and -ly1.] Young, youthful, juvenile (in years, in appearance or condition).
c1000ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 54 Iuuenilis, iunglic. c1000― Hom. II. 118 On ᵹeonglicum ᵹearum. a1225Leg. Kath. 544 A meiden ȝunglich of ȝeres. c1290St. Brendan 704 in S. Eng. Leg. 239 Þo cam to heom a ȝonglich man. a1300E.E. Psalter cxviii[i]. 141 Yongelike am I, and hated for-þi. 1390Gower Conf. II. 369 Beerdles with a yongly face. 1478Earl Rivers Crystyne's Mor. Prov. (1859) 2 b, A yongly man of chastisyng content Is signe of grace & of a good entent. 1542Boorde Dyetary xxxix. (1870) 300 A mery herte and mynde..causeth a man to lyue longe, and to loke yongly. a1577Sir T. Smith in Strype Life (1698) App. 42 Look what Ladies and Gentlewomen be most fruitful, and have most Children, if they look not for their Age most youngly, best coloured, and be clearest from Diseases. 1634[see infantry 2]. ▪ II. youngly, adv. Now rare.|ˈjʌŋlɪ| [f. young a. + -ly2.] 1. In youth; when one is young; early in life.
1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) P j, Euen in thy Swathebands out commission goeth To loose thy breath, that yet but yongly bloweth. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xi, That fresh bloud which yongly thou bestow'st. 1607― Cor. ii. iii. 244 How youngly he began to serue his Countrey. 1888Meredith Reading of Earth i, Flowers of the clematis drip in beard, Slack from the fir-tree youngly climbed. 2. In the manner of a young person; youthfully, immaturely.
c1530More Answ. Frith Wks. 841/2 This point is as ye see well of thys young man very younglye handeled. a1596Sir T. More iv. ii. 29 As tis the custome in this place The youngest should speake first, so, if I chaunce In this case to speake youngly, pardon me. 1607Markham Cavel. Ded., About foureteene yeres agone (when myne experience was but youngly fortified). 1922Joyce Ulysses 192 Yes, Mr. Best said youngly, I feel Hamlet quite young. |