humaynly
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From humayne + -ly. Modelled on Middle Dutch. Compare Modern English humanly.
Adjective
[edit]humaynly
- (hapax) characteristic of human nature
- [1481], The Historye of Reynart the Foxe, [Westminster]: [William Caxton]; republished in Early English Books Online[1], Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:
- And euery man that stondeth here wolde wel bethynke hym what he hath doon and bydryuen in his dayes he shold the better haue pacience and pyte on Reynart / late euery man knowe hym self / that is my coūseyl / ther is none that stōdeth so surely, but otherwhyle he falleth or slydeth / who that ne∣uer mysdede ne synned, is holy and good and hath no ne∣de to amende hym / whan a man doth amys, and thenne by coūseyl amendeth it / that is humaynly / and so ought he to doo / but alway to mys do & trespace / and not to amē∣de hym / that ys euyl and a deuely lyf / Merke thenne what is wreton in the gospel Estote misericordes / be ye mer∣cyful yet standeth ther more
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References
[edit]- “humanly, adj.”, in OED Online
[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-13.
