wontly
English
Etymology
From wont + -ly.
Adverb
wontly (comparative wontlier or more wontly, superlative wontliest or most wontly)
- Usually; customarily; habitually.
- 1807, Comyn, Samuel, A treatise of the law relative to contracts and agreements not under Seal:
- But third persons, merely for the purpose of laying a wager, shall not thus wontly expose others to ridicule, and libel them under the form of an action.
- 1929, Bryan, George (vicar of Huttoft), The dying Christian, a poem:
- That words were vain which would reveal His workings of amaze and zeal; But, when again his breast the tone Assumed which wontly seemed its own, […]
- 1974, Kansas Bar Association, The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association:
- […] rights violations against the Governor, Adjutant General of the National Guard, guard officials and enlisted members, and the university president for "intentionally, recklessly, willfully and wontly" causing the students' death.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:normally
Anagrams
- townly