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English
Etymology
From wished + -ly.
Adverb
wishedly (comparative more wishedly, superlative most wishedly)
- (obsolete) According to one's wish; as is or was desired.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Fourth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume I, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:To set so wishedly his footing there
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