Dictionary

whitely en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈwʌɪtli/ (UK)

Etymology

From white + -ly.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, archaic) pale-facedly.
   • […] among three to loue the worst of all, / A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow, / With two pitch balles stucke in her face for eyes. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
   • I perceive you know him, and am apt to believe also, That you were related one to another; for you have his whitely Look, a Cast like his with your Eye, and your Speech is much alike. 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC:
   • 15th c., Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid, lines 213-214, The secund steid to name hecht Ethios, Quhitlie and paill […]

Forms

whitely en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈwʌɪtli/ (UK)

Etymology

From white + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a white manner.
   • it is the autumn of a year: When through the thin air stooped with fear, across the harvest whitely peer empty of surprise death’s faultless eyes 1922, E. E. Cummings, “Songs, III”, in Tulips and Chimneys, New York: Liveright, published 1976, page 12:
   • […] she opened a door which disclosed a staircase so whitely scrubbed that the grain of the wood was wellnigh sodden away by such cleansing. 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 2”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
   • an enemy aeroplane flew part of the way with us, and bomb after bomb burst flaming in the fields alongside, until ‘wished morn’ whitely appeared. 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 161:
   • Were I to murmur “Yes,” and then “How true, my dear,” and “Yes,” again, And wear my eyes discreetly down, And tremble whitely at your frown, And keep my words unquestioning— My love, you’d run like anything! 1928, Dorothy Parker, “Dilemma”, in Sunset Gun, Garden City, NY: Sun Dial, published 1941, page 63:

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Translations (2)

eo blanke (Translations) · pl biało (Translations)