deynously
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From deynous + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
deynously
- (Late Middle English, rare) disdainfully
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court:
- And with that worde on me she gave a glome / With browes bente and gan on me to stare / Full daynnously, and fro me she dyde fare, / Levynge me stondynge as a mased man [...].
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- “deinǒuslī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.