diverselyadv.
In a diverse manner, in a different way; differently, otherwise; in diverse ways or directions, variously; with diversity. See also diversly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
wrothec888
unrighteouslyeOE
foullyOE
naughtlyOE
wrothlyc1200
litherlya1225
unwraste?c1225
illc1275
vilelyc1290
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
unwrastlyc1320
viciouslya1325
diverselyc1325
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
badlyc1405
foula1425
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
noughtily1528
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
illy1549
naught1549
bad1575
evilly1581
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
piggishly1756
iniquitously1796
pervertedly1804
the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adverb]
elseOE
diverselyc1325
diverslyc1384
differentlya1398
another gatea1450
anew1528
unlike1552
different1588
contrary1598
differingly1599
unalike1619
unresemblingly1662
dissimilarlya1771
disparately1881
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > in different directions
divers1595
diverse1708
diversely1733
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adverb] > away in different directions
divers1595
diverse1708
diversely1733
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 255 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 335 Nu ben theih so degysed and so diverseliche i-diȝt.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 432 Þei lyveden diverseliche fro þise newe sects.
c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 194 Diuerse folk diuersely [v.r. dyuersly] they demed.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21807 Þis tale.. Mani telles diuersli [Fairf. diuerseli], For þai find diuers stori.]
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. aij/1 The helthe of euery persone procedeth dyuercely.
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. g2v Infernus, which is diverselye taken in scripture, both for deeth, for a graue and for hell.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. i. 38 Being surrounded with Bodies, that perpetually and diversly affect us.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 97 On Life's vast Ocean diversely we sail.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xl. 484 The seven hills of Rome have been very diversely enumerated.
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