affrayedly

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From affrayed +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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affrayedly

  1. (rare) In an afraid or frightened way; fearfully.
    • c. 1375, “Book VI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß [] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 21, recto, lines 431-434; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
      Thyꝛwall þ[at] was þ[air] capitain / Wes þ[air] in þe baꝛgain slain / ⁊ off his men þe maſt p[ar]ty / Ϸe laue fled full affrayitly
      Thirlwall, who was their commander / was killed there in the struggle / with the greatest part of his men; / the rest fled very frightened.
    • 1481, William, Archbishop of Tyre, William Caxton, transl., “How our hoost departed on theyr iourney / & how som departed fro theyr felawship / and how solyman determyned tassayle them”, in Mary Noyes Colvin, editor, Godeffroy of Boloyne, or The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem, by William, Archbishop of Tyre. [] Printed [] in 1481. Edited from the Copy in the British Museum, []., London: [] for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., [], published 1893, page 108:
      And blewe hornes and trompettes moche affrayedly
      And blew horns and trumpets very fearfully.

Descendants

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  • English: afraidly