Saxonlyadv.
/ˈsaksənli/ In a Saxon manner; in the Saxon tongue.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adverb] > in English
Saxonlya1387
Englishlya1475
anglice1523
northernlyc1576
northern1614
saxonically1837
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adverb]
Englishly1596
Saxonly1864
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 159 Þe Flemmynges þat woneþ in þe weste side of Wales haueþ i-left her straunge speche and spekeþ Saxonliche i-now [L. Saxonice satis proloquuntur].
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xciii. 374 Of Britons (saxonlie cald Welsh, or Strangers).
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 28 Insurgent after no mad Gallic fashion, but soberly and Saxonly discharging itself.
1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 265 He found our language lumpish,..too apt to speak Saxonly in grouty monosyllables.
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