specialli

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

special +‎ -ly.

Adverb

specialli

  1. specially, especially
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 15–16:
      And specially from every shires ende / Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
      And specially from every shire's end / Of England they to Canterbury went,
    • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:
      And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.
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Descendants

  • English: specially
  • Scots: specialy, specially

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