Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Certainly; surely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Certainly.
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- adverb rare
certainly ;surely .
Etymologies
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From Middle English wisly ("certainly"), equivalent to wis + -ly.
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Examples
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And seyde, ` As wisly helpe me god the grete, 1230
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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He was previously offered the post of UNP organizer for Maharagama electorate that is renowned for patriotic and heroic people, but wisly Janaka Perera rejected the offer.
Kottu 2008
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if you don't like/care about your life.evrything have a begainning -n -an ending you get to choose the ending, and you get to choose to save world life, the power is in your hand/head choose wisly
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