deorlice
Old English
Etymology
From dēore + -līċe. Cognate with Old Saxon diurlīko, Old High German tiurlīhho.
Adverb
dēorlīċe
- preciously, dearly, worthily, richly, sincerely, acceptably.
Descendants
- Middle English: deorliche, derely
- English: dearly
References
- deórlíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary