† wishlyadj.
Obsolete. rare.
? Steadfast.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective]
truea1225
certain1297
standing1457
surec1475
stable1481
finite1493
resident1525
determinate1526
staid?1541
constantc1550
undiscomfitablea1555
inveterate1563
sound1565
unwanderinga1569
fixed1574
undisturbable1577
wishly1578
unremovable1579
inveterated1597
immoved1599
rigid1610
staple1621
consistent1648
irradicable1728
incoercible1756
hard and fast1822
unstrangulable1824
lockstep1831
statical1853
static1856
flatline1946
1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery H ij Vlisses wife shall mate the sore, whose wishly troth doth shine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
wishlyadv.
/ˈwɪʃli/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
Steadfastly, fixedly, intently; occasionally longingly. (Almost always qualifying look or some equivalent: cf. wistfully adv.)
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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [adverb]
anredlyOE
fastlyOE
steadfastly?c1225
stifflyc1290
stably1297
steadfasta1300
stoutly1303
steevely1340
sadlya1375
sturdilyc1374
firm1377
surelyc1380
like a flint1382
tough1398
firmlyc1425
unmovablyc1425
but variancec1430
sad?c1430
immovably1435
toughlyc1450
affirmlya1513
wishly1530
constantly1534
steadily1540
fall back (also flat), fall edge?1553
staidly1571
fixedly1605
indeclinably1624
undeclinably1662
unfalteringly1665
unswervingly1805
unwaveringly1830
indomitably1837
rockily1846
unbendingly1847
indivertibly1853
unshakeablya1864
undyingly1881
unshakenly1882
adamantly1897
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [adverb] > intently, closely
redelya1250
wishly1530
fixly1604
fixedly1605
wistfully1664
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [adverb]
wishingly1571
wishfully1598
optatively1626
wishlya1825
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. 183 I cast my syght vpon a thyng to beholde it wyshely.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. 183 And sodaynly he caste his syght wyshely vpon me.
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. v. i. f. cclxviv Causynge hym to put on his spectacles and poore better and more wysshely wyth his olde eyen vppon saynt Iohns gospell.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xi. 522 Æacides, that wishly did intend..how deepe the skirmish drew Amongst the Greeks.
1622 J. Abernethy Christian & Heavenly Treat. v. 73 Thou must bee wishly exstimulate in thy conscience.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. vi. 4) 186 He looketh wishtly, fixedly, steddily.
1660 S. Ford Παραλληλα 21 Those thousands of loyall Subjects, who..had looked wishtly towards the royall Palace.
1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xiii. 186 Looking wishly up into the Air [L. intentis in cœlum oculis].
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici App. 27 Woman, said he, tell me why dost thee so wishly behold me?
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Wishly, earnestly; wishfully; with longing... ‘The children eyed the plum-pudding wishly.’
1902 Longman's Mag. Nov. 40 I seed him yesterday a~cranen' over th' wall and eyen' on her wishly.
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adj.1578
adv.1530