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warlikely en · ADV

Etymology

From warlike + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) In a warlike manner.
    • Thus warlikely accoutred she rode immediately to Blois, where Forces and Provisions lay for the Relief of Orleans, with which she and the Marshal and Admiral of France entred. 1722, Isaac Kimber, The History of England, page 470:
    • The man, in whom the state, or his own genius, destroys the balance of powers for the advantage of one, will always bring this overlaying influence to education: the soldier will educate warlikely; the poet poetically; […] 1891, Jean Paul, Levana, page 224:

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most warlikely Degree=Sup lexicographic
more warlikely Degree=Cmp lexicographic