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sickerly en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English sikerly; equivalent to sicker + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Certainly.
    • My Lord sickerly, / Quoth he, faine would I your pleasure fulfill. 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe:
    • Awa awaw, sayn yeou this sickerly, or done you but jaum me? 1634, Richard Brome, Thomas Heywood, The Late Lancashire Witches:
    • My gentle bleed[…]Right sickerly does plead. 1742, Robert Forbes, Ajax His Speech to the Grecian Knabs: