obs. var. WITTINGLY adv. (Cf. WEET v.1 and next.)

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1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 23 b. That a manne should weetyngly & willingly come in the presence … of theim.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 100/45. Weetingly, sciens & prudens.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., VI. iii. 11. This ill state,… To which she for his sake had weetingly Now brought her selfe.

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1642.  H. More, Song Soul, II. i. III. xv. That man is wood That weetingly hastes on the thing he hates.

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