adv. Also 4 luflyly, luuelili, lufiely, 5 louelyly, 6 Sc. luuilelie. [f. LOVELY a. + -LY2.] In a lovely manner; † a. in a loving or friendly manner (obs.); b. in a way to stimulate love; beautifully.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 25582. Suete iesu!… al luuelili þou vs lere þe to luue wit sothfast rede.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, XVII. 315. Thair capitane Tretit thame sa luflely.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 2292. Bot sir Arthure … Laughte hym vpe fulle louelyly with lordlyche knyghttez.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., X. 459. Efter be the burgesses of Edinburgh verie luuilelie, and honorablie was receiuet.

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1671.  H. M., trans. Erasm. Colloq., 245. Moreover, how lovelily do the Graces cling to one another.

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1763.  Churchill, Duellist, II. Poems 1769, II. 69. Courage, a Youth of royal race, Lovlily stern, possess’d a place.

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1813.  Byron, Br. Abydos, I. iii. So lovelily the morning shone.

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1897.  Academy, 27 March, 357/2. The ‘bowery loneliness’ of ‘Paradise Lost’ is less lovelily beautiful.

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