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warely

warely adverb: watchfully; with caution.

Adverb

warely (comparative more warely, superlative most warely)

  1. (obsolete) Watchfully; with caution.
    • He that betrayed hym / gave them a generall token / ſayinge: whoſoever I do kiſſe / he it is / take hym / and leade hym awaye warely.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[44], folio lxvij, verso
    • Arriued there, the dore they find faſt lockt; / For it was warely watched night and day […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 136

Forms of warely

comparativemore warely
superlativemost warely

Origin of warely

From Middle English wareli, wearliche, from Old English wærlice, corresponding to ware + -ly.

Questions about warely

What does warely mean?
Warely means watchfully; with caution.
What part of speech is warely?
Warely is an adverb.

Words near warely in the dictionary

  1. warehousy
  2. Wareing
  3. Warekena
  4. Warekpam
  5. wareless
  6. warely
  7. waremaker
  8. waremakers
  9. waremaking
  10. Waremme
  11. warence

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