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▪ I. † winly, a. Obs. Forms: 1 wynlic, wenlic, 3 wunlic, wun-, wund-, wune-, wonliche, 4 wynly, -lich(e, -wynnelych, 5 wynlyche, winli. [OE. wynlic, f. wyn(n joy, win n.2 + -lic, -ly1.] Pleasant, agreeable; goodly, splendid, beautiful. (Often merely a vague epithet of commendation.)
a1000Phœnix 34 Sunbearo lixeð, wuduholt wynlic. c1000Ags. Hom. (Assmann) ix. 205 Heo wæs swiðe wlitiᵹ and wenlices hiwes. c1205Lay. 8090 Wæs at foren þan wæfde imaked an wunlic fur. Ibid. 10000 Stod þe wundliche [c 1275 wonliche] wude amidden ane wælde. a1300E.E. Psalter xxiii[i]. 3 Wha sal stegh in hille of lauerd winli? 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1411 Some of þo wynly wones Were peynted with precyus stones. a1400Pistill of Susan 99 With wardons winlich and walshe notes newe. a1400Morte Arth. 181 Ther-to wylde to wale, and wynlyche bryddes. ▪ II. † winly, adv. Obs. Forms: 1 wynlice, 3 wunliche, 4 wynli, -lyche, wynn-, wynely, 4–5 wynly, 5 winly. [OE. wynlíce, f. wynlic: see prec. and -ly2.] Pleasantly, agreeably; finely, splendidly. (Often vague in alliterative verse.)
c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) cvii[i]. 2 Þæt ic wynlice on psalterio þe singan mote. c1205Lay. 3605 Sone werð þe alde king wunliche iæðeled. c1350Will. Palerne 749 A gardin euene,..wynli wiþ heie wal was closed al a-boute. c1400Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.) i. 225 The stretis ware strautht & wynly maide. a1400–50Wars Alex. 5545 In at a wicket he went & wynly it speris. c1440York Myst. xlv. 103 What ayles yow women, for wo þus wynly to wepe? c1450Holland Howlat 660 The Pape and the patriarkis..Welcummit thaim wynly. |