adv. [f. JEALOUS a. + -LY2.] In a jealous manner.
† 1. Zealously, eagerly. Obs.
1388. Wyclif, Joel ii. 18. The Lord louyde gelousli his lond.
1549. Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Gal. iv. Cc ij b. Some ielously wooe you and as it were enuiyng at me, labor to wynne your fauor.
2. In a way characterized by jealousy (in mod. senses); with watchful care for preservation; with apprehension of rivalry, or (esp.) of loss or damage.
1718. Strype, Whitgift, III. xxiii. He had always hoped that her Majesty’s safety … should be jealously preserved.
a. 1788. Mickle, Siege Marseilles, III. v. He stamps the ground; then jealously casts round His burning eyes, as if he fear’d his thoughts Were listen’d to.
1857. Keble, Euchar. Adorat., 31. Surely it is natural that we should … jealously guard them, and scrupulously make the most of them.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. vii. 29. They were doubtless jealously watched.
† 3. Suspiciously, distrustfully. Obs. (exc. dial.)
1628. Digby, Voy. Medit., 84. But seeing they wrought jealously of me. (Still common dialectally.)
