featously

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From featous +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

featously (comparative more featously, superlative most featously)

  1. (obsolete) Attractively, beautifully.
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
      Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre / And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede.
    • c. 1570, Richard Edwardes, Collected Works, Manchester, published 2001:
      Mansell is a merry one and is right worthy love, / Whom Nature wrought so featously her cunning for to prove.
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