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Middle English
Etymology
From affrayed + -ly.
Adverb
affrayedly
- (rare) In an afraid or frightened way; fearfully.
c. 1375, “Book VI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 21, recto, lines 431-434; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:Thyꝛwall þ was þ capitain / Wes þ in þe baꝛgain slain / ⁊ off his men þe maſt pty / Ϸe laue fled full affrayitly- Thirlwall, who was their commander / was killed there in the struggle / with the greatest part of his men; / the rest fled very frightened.
1481, William, Archbishop of Tyre, William Caxton, transl., “How our hoost departed on theyr iourney / & how som departed fro theyr felawship / and how solyman determyned tassayle them”, in Mary Noyes Colvin, editor, Godeffroy of Boloyne, or The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem, by William, Archbishop of Tyre. Printed in 1481. Edited from the Copy in the British Museum, ., London: for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., , published 1893, page 108:And blewe hornes and trompettes moche affrayedly- And blew horns and trumpets very fearfully.
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