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English
Etymology
From fairy + -ly.
Adverb
fairily (comparative more fairily, superlative most fairily)
- (poetic, archaic) In the manner of a fairy.
1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, stanza V, page 85:At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay / Of old romance.
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