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English
Etymology
From broker + -ly.
Adjective
brokerly (comparative more brokerly, superlative most brokerly)
- (obsolete) mean; servile
1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, , published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):A brokerly slave,