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sillyly en · ADV

Etymology

From silly + -ly.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of sillily.
   alt of sillily
   • So some that passe for Deepe Astrologers / Have made great Princes Presents of New-stars, / As Virtuosos sillyly have don / And giv’n away whole Ilands in the Moon:[…] a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 203:
   • Reader be pleaſed to view over theſe two Accounts (touching the Controverſy between Tho. Hicks and John Story) that It may be underſtood how Sillyly Tho. Hicks came off about his falſe Charge againſt the Quakers,[…] 1673, The Christian-Quaker and His Divine Testimony Vindicated, Against the Adversaries of the True Light; Being the Second Part, Containing a More Particular Answer to the Baptists (and others) Arguments, Exceptions, Errors and Falasies Herein Specified, page 60:
   • the report you know my love is very is false therefore that particular dont make me uneaſy as it will be proved to the contrary by seeing we live together, it was some spiteful person raised it maliciously and very sillyly indeed 1770, The Trial of His R. H. the D. of C. Duke of Cumberland July 5th, 1770. for criminal conversation with Lady Harriet G----------r. […], London: […] John Walker, page 33:
   • […]: Withal very ſillyly finding fault with the Style of our Sermons, which even every wiſe Man among the Diſſenters themſelves do approve of:[…] 1730, William Nichols, A Defence of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England, the third edition, London: […] J. Batley […]; and H. Parker […], page 128:
   • For vvhile the bodie is committed to one, and the ſoule to an other, it falleth out moſt times, that the poore bodie is miſerably neglected, […] and that the ſoule it ſelfe is but ſillyly looked to, vvhile the bodie is in price, and to much borne vvith, as is generally ſeene: […] 1581, Richard Mulcaster, “An Aduertisement to the Training Maister. Why Both the Teaching of the Minde, and the Training of the Bodie be Assigned to the Same Maister. […]”, in Positions wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances be Examined, which are Necessarie for the Training Vp of Children, either for Skill in Their Booke, or Health in Their Bodie. […], London: […] Thomas Vautrollier for Thomas Chare [i.e., Chard], →OCLC, page 125:

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