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angerly en · ADV · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English angerly; equivalent to anger + -ly (adverbial suffix).

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Angrily.
    • [A]none an other woman kneled downe to the ſame pꝛeſt ⁊ began to ſay benedicite wherwith this pꝛeeſt ſodenly wakyd wenynge ſhe had ben the other woma[n] ⁊ ſayd al angerly ⸝ what art thou now at benedicite agayne tell me what dydeſt thou when thou hadyſt ſtolyn the pot. 1526 December 2 (Gregorian calendar), “By this ye may se that they that haue but small lernynge somtyme speke truely vnaduysyd”, in A .C. Mery Talys, London: Johannes Rastell, →OCLC, folio xxiii, recto:

Forms

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more angerly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most angerly Degree=Sup lexicographic

angerly en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English angerly; equivalent to anger + -ly (adjectival suffix).

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Feeling or characterized by anger; angry.
    • Do not look angerly now, Jack, but let me tell you three things: I must do so, as a friend. 1972, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 10, in Post Captain (The Aubrey/Maturin Novels; 2), London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1998, →ISBN, page 323:
    • [U]nless a woman one likes is in the way, it is some years since I felt a long anger. […] ** was angerly, but tried to conceal it. 1814 February 26, Lord Byron, “Letter CLXVIII. To Mr. [Thomas] Moore.”, in Thomas Moore, editor, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1830, →OCLC, page 534:
    • For the manner of ſpeech, either in approuing, or reprouing any thing; they may not directly command their husbands, but intreate: nor reproue with chiding and anger, but gently by exhortation, auoyding vnaduiſed and raſh ſpeech: as that of Rahel to Iacob, Gen[esis] 30. 1. angerly and ſhrewiſh ſpeech: as, Iezabel to Ahab, 1 King[s] 2. 17. 1630, [William Gouge], “Ephesians 5. Ver[ses] 22, 23, &c.”, in An Exposition of Part of the Fift and Sixt Chapters of S. Paules Epistle to the Ephesians, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes, Robert Young, and John Beale] for Iohn Bartlett, […], →OCLC, page 23:
    • v[erse] 6. ſad] the Greek tranſlateth, troubled: & so the Hebrue importeth an angerly diſcontent, and fretfull trouble of mind, Prov[erbs] 19. 3. with a ſad and lowring countenance, […] 1616, H[enry] A[insworth], chapter 40, in Annotations upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis. […], [Amsterdam]: [Giles Thorp], →OCLC, verse 6, signature Ee, recto, column 1:
    • ‘[…] But Jack, you look angerly.’ ‘I am angerly. I am in fact so exceedingly out of temper that I can scarcely command my mind and keep it steady to its paper-work,’ said Jack, and Stephen, with a sinking heart, saw that he was if anything understating the case. 1991, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 10, in The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey-Maturin; 14), London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1993, →ISBN, page 285:

Forms

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more angerly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most angerly Degree=Sup lexicographic