sickerly en · ADV
Etymology
From Middle English sikerly; equivalent to sicker + -ly.
Meanings
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(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: