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English
Adverb
onely
- Obsolete spelling of only
1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:All flesh is grasse, is not onely metaphorically, but literally true, for all those creatures we behold, are but the hearbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in our selves.
1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 62–64:on his right
The radiant image of his Glory ſat,
His onely Son;
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:In which him chaunced false Duessa meete,
Mine onely foe, mine onely deadly dread;
Who with her witchcraft and misseeming sweete,
Inveigled him to follow her desires unmeete.
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