† dearworthlyadv.
Obsolete.
= dearworthily adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > affection > [adverb]
sweetly?c1225
dearworthlyc1230
kindlya1325
dearc1330
dearworthilya1400
chislyc1400
affectiouslya1420
deliciouslyc1425
affectuouslyc1430
affectually1447
cherishlyc1475
fondly1561
affectionately1604
affectedly1609
affly1779
attachedly1794
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adverb] > and nobly or splendidly
micklelyeOE
highlyeOE
freelyOE
dearworthlyc1230
gloriously1393
dearworthilya1400
farrandlyc1400
stately?a1439
finely?1552
gallantly1552
goldenly1580
rarely1581
sightly1592
superbly1769
splendidly1774
splendiferously1841
swell1856
in there1944
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 209 Þeos beo deorewurðliche ihalden.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7559 Twa hundred cnihten..þe sculen biwiten þene king durewurðliche [c1300 Otho deorworliche] þurh alle þing.
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 180 How derwurly, afore hys ende, A derwurþ ȝyfte he wulde with þe lete.
c1325 Metr. Hom. 84 Wel birs us blis the derworthelye.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5322 He..mensked him derworthli [Fairf. derworþly, Gött. dereworthly, Trin. Cambr. dere worþely].
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) ii. lxiii. 59 Thou..keptest me ful derworthly, that I went nought from the.
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