warely
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wareli, wearliche, from Old English wærlice, corresponding to ware + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]warely (comparative more warely, superlative most warely)
- (obsolete) Watchfully; with caution.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[44], folio lxvij, verso:
- He that betrayed hym / gave them a generall token / ſayinge: whoſoever I do kiſſe / he it is / take hym / and leade hym awaye warely.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 136:
- Arriued there, the dore they find faſt lockt; / For it was warely watched night and day […]