† traistlyadv.
Obsolete.
(a) With feeling of security, securely; with confidence or trust, confidently. (b) Faithfully, trustily.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [adverb]
trustlya1200
safelyc1330
traistlya1340
trustilya1375
traistilya1400
trustinglya1475
surely1523
trustfully?1531
confidently1597
affiantlya1641
fiduciarily1654
credently1832
confidingly1885
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [adverb]
tristilyc1330
traistlya1340
faithlyc1350
faithfullya1400
fayfully?a1400
trothlya1400
truefullya1400
trustilya1450
trustworthily1827
reliably1846
trustedly1856
dependably1862
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxvii. 1 The prophet traistly couaitis that he wate is at cum.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 260 Traistli armites [read acountes] sal we yeild.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 19950 Na hope of nan he wil forhu Þat wil traistlic [Vesp. traistili] in him tru.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13422 Þai gun trastli [Vesp. traistili] trou, Fra þat dai in vr lauerd iesu.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 36 And war thai knyt with ȝow, ȝe mycht The trastlyar [1489 Adv. traystlyer] abyde to ficht.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. c The renkis of the round tabill That has traistly thame tight to governe that gait.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Acts ix. 27 In Damasc he did traistlie in the name of Jesu.
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