featously

English

Etymology

From featous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

featously (comparative more featously, superlative most featously)

1. (obsolete) Attractively, beautifully.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:

     Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre / And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede.

   • c. 1570, Richard Edwardes, Collected Works, Manchester, published 2001:

     Mansell is a merry one and is right worthy love, / Whom Nature wrought so featously her cunning for to prove.