deorlice

Old English

Etymology

From dēore +‎ -līċe. Cognate with Old Saxon diurlīko, Old High German tiurlīhho.

Adverb

dēorlīċe

  1. preciously, dearly, worthily, richly, sincerely, acceptably.

Descendants
  • Middle English: deorliche, derely

References
  • deórlíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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