affrayedly

Middle English

Alternative forms

• affrayitly (Early Scots)

Etymology

From affrayed +‎ -ly.

Adverb

affrayedly

1. (rare) In an afraid or frightened way; fearfully.
   • c. 1375, “Book VI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎^[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 21, recto, lines 431-434; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:

     Thyꝛwall þ[at] was þ[air] capitain / Wes þ[air] in þe baꝛgain slain / ⁊ off his men þe maſt p[ar]ty / Ϸe laue fled full affrayitly

     Thirlwall, who was their commander / was killed there in the struggle / with the greatest part of his men; / the rest fled very frightened.

   • 1481, William, Archbishop of Tyre, William Caxton, transl., “How our hoost departed on theyr iourney / & how som departed fro theyr felawship / and how solyman determyned tassayle them”, in Mary Noyes Colvin, editor, Godeffroy of Boloyne, or The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem, by William, Archbishop of Tyre. […] Printed […] in 1481. Edited from the Copy in the British Museum, […]., London: […] for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], published 1893, page 108:

     And blewe hornes and trompettes moche affrayedly

     And blew horns and trumpets very fearfully.

Descendants

• English: afraidly