† somewhatlyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
Somewhat; to some (slight) extent.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > somewhat
somedealc725
halfc1175
somewhatc1175
somethingc1275
little whatc1384
somedeallyc1400
measurablec1420
somewhatlyc1450
somewisec1450
somepartc1485
parta1500
something1548
rather1573
some1575
rathera1684
sunket1686
somethingisha1726
measurably1756
rather1770
rather1772
somec1780
sumthin1786
wee1816
sumfin1852
sumptin1852
measuredly1860
sumpin1889
part-way1954
ish1986
c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 115 Sumwhatly streight vp towarde the auter.
c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 108 A whyte lynnen garnemente sumwhatly trailynge on þe erthe.
1483 Cath. Angl. 371 Svmqwatly, aliqualiter, vtrumque.
a1711 H. Lamp Autobiogr. (1895) iii. 26 I staid there about six months, learning the English tongue somewhatly.]
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