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well-favouredly en · ADV

Etymology

From well-favoured + -ly.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully.
2. (obsolete, of a trashing, qualifier:ironically; beating; punishment; ironically; beating; punishment, usually) Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully. ▸ Severely (cf. handsomely).
3. (obsolete, of money) Lavishly, liberally, generously, handsomely.
   • I bought thee kerchers to thy head, that were wrought fine and gallantly: I kept thee both at boord and bed, Which cost my purse wel fauouredly. 1878 [1584], Clement Robinson, “A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeues” (stanza 3), in Edward Arber, editor, A Handful of Pleasant Delights:
4. (obsolete) By good fortune, happily.

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