leallyadv.
/ˈliːli/ 1. Loyally, faithfully, truly.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [adverb]
holdec1000
holdelyc1050
trulya1250
truec1300
faithlyc1350
faithfullya1382
leallyc1394
fayfully?a1400
leala1400
lawfullyc1500
faithful1539
loyallement?1549
loyally1572
devotiously1621
devotedly1812
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 639 Þat leeueþ fulliche on God & lellyche þenkeþ On his lore and his lawe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22777 Al þa þat..foluis lellik al his laues.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 1955 All þat wil leleli [Vesp. lely, Fairf. lele] wil hald þair lede.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3818 Of all þe god he dos me weild Lelik [Gött. Lelely] his tend i sal him yeild.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1066 & lelly louy þy lorde & his leef worþe.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xviii. 215 Thise ar the commaundementys ten, Whoso will lely layt.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3875 Was neuer kyng..lellier louyt ledys of his aune.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 21 [He] sould stand his freind leillellie and trewlie.
1588 in Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan I. iv. 125 They suld use the offices faythfullie and lealie till all persones.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Iter The dempster..sall leallelie and trewlie, vse and exerce his office.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 177 Sae lealy I'll propone defences, As yet ye flung for my expences.
1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 123 The men..Who by Scotland, my country, stood leally and true.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adverb]
mid or with (‥) soothc888
soothfastlya890
soothfastc950
rightOE
yeaOE
soothlyOE
soothOE
trulyc1225
soothrightc1275
purec1300
verament1303
verily1303
purelyc1325
verimentc1325
indeedc1330
veirec1330
soothfully1340
faithlyc1350
of very (due) right?a1366
leallya1375
amenc1384
in soothnessc1386
verya1387
in certaina1400
truea1400
without(en) wougha1400
in veirec1400
in deedc1405
without famec1430
in veramentc1450
utterlyc1460
veritably1481
veritable1490
voirably1501
seriously1644
quite1736
quite1881
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 117 But lelliche þat ladi in ȝouþe hadde lerned miche schame.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 95 Þere walked he a-boute þe walles to winne in siȝt; & at þe last lelly a litel hole he findes.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 174 He that knoweth clergye can sonner aryse Out of synne..than any lewed lelly [C. xv. 113 sothliche].
a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 30 For þat oure saule es lelly lyke vn-till þe lyknes of þe ffadyr, and þe Sone, and þe Haly Gaste.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 313 Tell me now lelely quhat is thy richt name.
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