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Vilely adv. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Vilely adv. Forms: α. 3–4 villiche (4–5 filliche), 4 vylliche, vyllyche. β. 3–5 viliche (4 vileche), 5 vilich; 4 vilike, wilik; 4, 6 vyly, 6–7 vylie; 4, 6–7 vily (4–5 vili), 6 vilie, vilye. γ. 4–5 vileliche (5 villiliche), 4 vilelik, 4, 6– vilely (6 vylely). [f. VILE a. + -LY2, after AF. and OF. vilement.] In a vile manner (in various senses of the adj.).

1   α.  c. 1290.  S. Eng. Leg., I. 296/82. Huy nomen and drowen þis holie man villiche þoruȝ þe strete, Forto huy comen with-oute toun.

2 c. 1300.  St. Margarete, 123. Hire suete tendre flesch so filliche to-drawe was so; Allas, hou miȝte eni man for reuþe such dede do.

3 13[?].  Seuyn Sages (W.), 1433. And than before the folk him bring, And thourgh the toun him villiche driue.

4 1340.  Ayenb., 133. Þet is wylny … to by y-hyealde vyl and villiche to by y-draȝe.

5   β.  a. 1300.  Cursor M., 15833. Þai huited on him viliker Þan he had ben a hund.

6 1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 2609. No man was so hardy To bryng hym þyng opunly, Þat he ne shulde vyly be shent.

7 a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, i. 6. Hathen men sal viliere be dampned.

8 1388.  Wyclif, Lev. xviii. 28. Be ȝe war, lest it caste out viliche also ȝou in lijk manere.

9 c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 6912. Vlixes, his aune cosyn … To venge of þat vilany vili dissirit.

10 c. 1425.  Eng. Conq. Ireland, 4. Of the schame þat hyme was done, & of þat þat he was so vilich out of hys kynd lond I-dryue.

11 1553.  T. Wilson, Rhet., 56 b. We shall sone make our aduersaries to be lothed, if we declare how cruelly, how vilie, and how maliciously thei haue vsed other men heretofore.

12 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 62. I will neyther cowardlye shrinke, nor vilye forsake my flocke committed to my charge.

13 1616.  Champney, Voc. Bps., 119. For which reason doubtles do our English Puritans esteeme so vily of ordinations made by Bishops.

14 1677.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, IV. I. iv. § 6. 132. It is … a vile thing, vily to obey any vile thing, such as sin is.

15   γ.  13[?].  Cursor M., 16951 (Gött.). He þat neuer no sin did, vr sinnes all he bare, And vilelik for vs was ledd.

16 13[?].  K. Alis., 3968 (Laud MS.). Ne had myne hauberk ben þe strongere Þou haddest me vilely yslawe.

17 c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. ii. (1869), 175. Þilke beste was disgised so vileliche, and so foule figured þat [etc.].

18 1555.  Eden, Decades (Arb.), 86. Declaringe howe vylely, vylaynously, and violently he had byn vsed of owre men.

19 1581.  Mulcaster, Positions, xxxvii. (1887), 161. So vilely to abuse, where they ought to honour.

20 1611.  Bible, 2 Sam. i. 21. The shield of the mightie is vilely cast away.

21 1694.  Wood, Life (O. H. S.), III. 462. The commons [were] enraged at it and spoke vilely of the Earl of Abendon and his son—calls them Jacobites.

22 1745.  P. Thomas, Jrnl. Anson’s Voy., 144. This so generally received, tho’ vilely mistaken Opinion, has caused many poor Sufferers to Endure more … than from the Distemper itself.

23 1766.  Goldsm., Vic. W., xxxi. How is it, sir, that … his daughter [is] vilely seduced as a recompence for his hospitality?

24 1815.  Scott, Guy M., xxi. Some drawings I have attempted, but I succeed vilely.

25 1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, IX. 619. A woman proud As I am, and I’m very vilely proud.

26 1894.  Gladstone, Horace, III. v. 20. Swords, that Roman once had been, From unresisting legions vilely ta’en.

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