holily
English
Etymology
From Middle English holily, holyly, holilie, holiliche, holyliche, haliliche, haliʒlike, haliliʒ, from Old English hāliġlīċe, equivalent to holy + -ly.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhəʊlɪli/
Adverb
holily (comparative more holily, superlative most holily)
- In a holy way; with sanctity.
- 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XLVI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, OCLC 1227561436, page 140:
- And there are ſome diſpoſitions blame-vvorthy in men, vvhich are yet, in a right ſenſe, holily aſcribed unto God; as unchangeableneſs, and irrepentance: […]
- 1688, Henry Wharton, Sermon III preach'd at Lambeth Chapel
- […] enjoyning them upon the severest Penalties to live godlily, holily and righteously in this present World […]
- 2010, "An own goal on gay rights", The Economist, 14 Oct 2010:
- The other [problem] is that, like Macbeth, what the president wants highly he also wants holily.
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Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɦolɪlɪ]
Verb
holily
- inflection of holit:
- inanimate masculine plural past participle
- feminine plural past participle