weetingly

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English

Etymology

Equivalent to weeting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

weetingly (not comparable)

Obsolete spelling of wittingly (“knowingly”).
- 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie vpon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: T C for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  all mens hearts with secret ravishment He stole away, and weetingly beguyld
- 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: J Flesher, for William Morden , →OCLC:
  That man is wood
  That weetingly hastes on the thing he hates

References

“weetingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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