Obs. Forms: α. 4 worþschiplich(e, worschip-, worssip-, worshepliche; 4 worshepeli, -ly, 4 worschip-, 5 worshyp-, worshup-, worshep-, 5– worshiply (-lie, etc.). β. 5 wurchyply, 7 wurshiply. γ. 4 wirschiply, 5 wyrchiply. [Irreg. f. WORSHIP sb. + -LY2.] = WORSHIPFULLY adv. (in various senses).
a. 1300. Cursor M., 27498. Wirschiply, i thanc it þe, Þat suilk a simple wroght als me Did be broght vnto preist-hade.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 131. His lordis honour he held worþschipliche, & defended it wele & hardiliche. Ibid., 5040. Þan y-herberwed weren he Worþschipliche in þat cite.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 81. To Ȝorke þe[i] com aȝeyn, & wrouht þer worschiply … a Kirk of our Lady.
1340. Ayenb., 54. Þo þet libbeþ be hyre onestete: þe ilke … libbeþ worssipliche to þe wordle.
c. 1400. Brut, xxii. 26. Þis Belyn duellede þo in pees, and worshepliche him helde amonges his barons.
1459. Paston Lett., I. 494. My Lord Chanceler wold that my master schuld be beryed wurchyply.
1475. Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.), 69. The whiche king Cirus received the saide Lizander full worshiplie in his palais.
c. 1489. Skelton, Death Earl & Northumbld., 186. Barons and those knygtes bold … Whom he as lord worshyply mainteyned.
1601. J. Dee, Diary (Camden), 64. He used me and reported of me very freely and wurshiply.
