sickerly

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English

Etymology

From Middle English sikerly; equivalent to sicker +‎ -ly.

Adverb

sickerly

  1. (obsolete outside dialects) Certainly.
    • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe:
      My Lord sickerly, / Quoth he, faine would I your pleasure fulfill.
    • 1634, Richard Brome, Thomas Heywood, The Late Lancashire Witches:
      Awa awaw, sayn yeou this sickerly, or done you but jaum me?
    • 1742, Robert Forbes, Ajax His Speech to the Grecian Knabs:
      My gentle bleed [] Right sickerly does plead.