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English
Adjective
bygly (comparative more bygly, superlative most bygly)
- Obsolete form of bigly.
Adverb
bygly (comparative more bygly, superlative most bygly)
- Obsolete form of bigly.
Middle English
Adverb
bygly
- bigly: strongly, with great force
- 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, [Le Morte Darthur], : Enprynted and fynysshed in thabbey Westmestre , OCLC 71490786, leaf 193 verso; republished as H Oskar Sommer, editor, Le morte darthur by Syr Thomas Malory; the Original Edition of William Caxton Now Reprinted and Edited with an Introduction and Glossary by H. Oskar Sommer, Ph.D.; with an Essay on Malory's Prose Style by Andrew Lang, London: Published by David Nutt, in the Strand, 1889–1891 (reproduced Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, 1997), OCLC 890162034, page 386:
Thenne sir Tristram came in and beganne so roughly and soo bygly that there was none myght withstande hym / and thus sire Tristram dured longe- (please add an English translation of this quotation)