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English
Etymology
From featous + -ly.
Adverb
featously (comparative more featously, superlative most featously)
- (obsolete) Attractively, beautifully.
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre / And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede.
c. 1570, Richard Edwardes, Collected Works, Manchester, published 2001:Mansell is a merry one and is right worthy love, / Whom Nature wrought so featously her cunning for to prove.