traitorly

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From traitor + -ly.

Adjective

traitorly (comparative more traitorly, superlative most traitorly)

  1. Like a traitor; traitorous.

Adverb

traitorly (comparative more traitorly, superlative most traitorly)

  1. (obsolete) Traitorously.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter ix, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
      But wete ye wel whan ye are past this lodgynge / I shalle hurte you and I may / for ye slewe my fader traitourly / But fyrst for the loue of my lord sir Tor / and for the loue of sir Lamorak the honourable Knyght that here is lodged ye shal haue none ylle lodgynge / For hit is pyte that euer ye shold be in the company of good Knyghtes
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