wightly
English
Etymology
From wight + -ly.
Adverb
wightly (comparative more wightly, superlative most wightly)
- (obsolete) Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- Þanne drede went wiȝtliche · and warned þe fals / And bad hym flee for fere · and his felawes alle.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II: