† batauntlyadv.
Obsolete.
Hastily, pressingly, eagerly.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly
hyinglya1225
rapelya1300
a-rapec1300
frowc1325
batand1330
raplya1375
rapec1380
batauntly1393
untoomlyc1540
snatchingly1552
hastily1590
festinately1598
postingly1610
postwise1744
hastefully1813
hurriedly1816
rush1853
rushy1908
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 56 Batauntliche, as beggers don · and boldeliche he craueþ.
1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Batauntly, boldly. Obs.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Batauntly, (O[ld Word]) boldly. [Hence in Bailey etc.]
a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 209 Yette woulde I battentlie assuage mie fyre.]
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