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cunningly, adv.|ˈkʌnɪŋlɪ|
Forms: see cunning a.
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In a cunning manner.
1. With skill, knowledge, or wisdom; wisely, cleverly, knowingly. Obs. or arch.
In early quots. often = ‘with good breeding, politely’.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Theodera 402 Hyme ful connandly scho gret. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1485 Hypsip. & Medea, Fful cunnyngely these lordes two he grette. c1400Destr. Troy 838 Iason carpes to the kyng, conyngly he said. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxxviii. (1859) 63 He salewed hyr goodly, and she welcomed hym ful connyngly, as she wel couthe. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. xii. 275 Hucheown..In-til his gest hystoriale Has tretyd þis mar cunnandly. c1460Towneley Myst. 160 This barne..That carps thus conandly. 1519Interl. Four Elem. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 37 He hath expound cunningly Divers points of cosmography. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 91 Which thoughts were bewraied by my countenance..which she cunningly perceiuing [etc.]. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 341 Two wise men..who can Talk cunningly about the ways of man.
2. With skilful art. (Now a literary archaism.)
a1400Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 114 He so cuninglye this worcke caste. 1555Eden Decades 31 Chayers and stooles..very coonningely wrowght. 1682Milton Hist. Mosc. ii. (1851) 483 They shoot wondrous cunningly: thir Arrow heads are sharpned Stones. 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Clouds i. iv, Cunningly-wrought halls. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Remin. II. xxi. 52 Inigo Jones..decorated the front of Kirby..in cunningly carved stone.
3. With knowledge employed to conceal facts or designs, or to deceive or circumvent; craftily, artfully. (The current sense.)
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 48 So cunningly had he under the vaile of pietie, shadowed his most execrable treacherie. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 104 The cuninglier to colour their greatest disorders and robberies. 1719D'Urfey Pills IV. 201 Women are..cunningly Coy. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xi. 124 Your lash..is apt to..fasten itself cunningly round bits of ice. 1867Deutsch Rem. (1874) 8 He saw the cunningly-laid trap. |