weetingly

English

Etymology

Equivalent to weeting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

weetingly (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of wittingly (“knowingly”).
   • 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie vpon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     all mens hearts with secret ravishment He stole away, and weetingly beguyld

   • 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:

     That man is wood
     That weetingly hastes on the thing he hates

References

• “weetingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.