1. With fidelity, faithfully, loyally, steadfastly, truthfully.
c. 1325. English Metrical Homilies, 162. Feitheli scho hir candel held aye.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 316.
| Þe turned to London, of þe treus to speke, | |
| And feyþly þerto bondon, on no manere to breke. |
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XXII. 70. Faithly for to speke · hus furste name was ihesus.
c. 1440. Sir Degrev., 541.
| That y shalle faythly fyeght, | |
| Both in worng and in ryght. |
2. As an asseveration: In deed or truth, certainly, surely, verily.
c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1636. Þis gomen is your awen … faythely ȝe knowe.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 4032. We are faithely to fewe to feghte with them.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2279. Now faithly … fall þe so thrise, þou sall be crouned.
