Talk:mightly

RFV discussion: September–October 2022

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mightly

Rfv-sense: "Mighty; competent; capable; strong; powerful." The quotation presently provided is wrong, both in terms of provenance and content. It's actually from The Goddess of Atvatabar (1892) by William R. Bradshaw and the word is "mighty", not "mightly" ([1]). Well, perhaps the title is that of a collection in which it was reprinted rather than being completely wrong, but it's still misleading. 98.170.164.88 18:49, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

I'll look for better citations. This one looks like it might be a dud. Leasnam (talk) 19:11, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

I've added some. The 1770 cite also has several hits within the same work for "mighty arm", nevertheless this particular quote is very clearly mightly and not mighty. Nevertheless, to be safe, I added and extra one, making a total of 4. Leasnam (talk) 04:38, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Can confirm that all of those have the word "mightly" and are not scannos. 98.170.164.88 05:20, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. I purposefully focused on Early Modern English as the timeframe, because I felt that would leave any room for mistakes/typos for mighty less likely. The added quotes however should not be inferred to mean that the term is only used back in 18c English, hits are still to be found today. Just feel the need to make that abundantly clear, as some editors seem to be in the practice of labelling words based only on the citations provided on the page, which may or may not be fully comprehensive. Leasnam (talk) 23:18, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 10:34, 9 October 2022 (UTC)