weetingly

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English

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Etymology

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Equivalent to weeting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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weetingly (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of wittingly (knowingly).
    • 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie vpon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: [] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      all mens hearts with secret ravishment He stole away, and weetingly beguyld
    • 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: [] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden [], →OCLC:
      That man is wood
      That weetingly hastes on the thing he hates

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