onely

English

Adverb

onely

1. Obsolete spelling of only.
   • 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:

     All flesh is grasse, is not onely metaphorically, but literally true, for all those creatures we behold, are but the hearbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in our selves.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     No light, but rather darkness visible / Serv'd onely to discover sights of woe

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Loney, Olney, Onley, enoyl