eornostlice
Old English
Alternative forms
- eornestlīċe
Etymology
From eornost + -līċe. Cognate with Old High German ernustlīhho.
Adverb
eornostlīċe
- earnestly, strictly, truly.
Descendants
- Middle English: ernestly
- English: earnestly
References
- eornostlíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary