adv. Obs. Forms: 1 ʓeornlice, 2–3 ȝeornliche, 3 ȝeorneliche, ȝernliche, ȝierneliche, ȝornliche, 4 ȝernely; comp. 3 ȝerenluker, ȝeorneluker, 4 ȝernloker; sup. 2 ȝeornlucost. [OE. ʓeornlíce = OHG. gernlihho = ON. giarnliga: see YERN a. and -LY2.] = prec. 1.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), O 38. Obnixe, ʓeornlice.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. iii. (1890), 268. He … ʓeornlice in his ʓebede hleoðrade.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. ii. 8. Farað & axiað ʓeornlice be þam cilde.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 109. Þe feorðe unþeu is þet þe riche mon … bihude his feh, and ȝeornliche halde hit.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 121. Men bien swo wiðerfulle þat, swo he ȝerenluker clepeð hem to him, swo hie wiðere turneð froward him.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 100. Hercneð nu ȝeorneliche, mine leoue sustren.
c. 1275. Lay., 15593. Hii … ȝornliche luste Of þes vncouþe tale.
a. 1375. Joseph Arim., 593. Nas þer ȝong mon ne old þat ȝernloker wrouȝte.
a. 1400. Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1914), 55. Damsele Discrecyone … sall … ȝernely luke þat all go wele.
