youthly, a. Now rare.
(ˈjuːθlɪ)
[f. youth + -ly1. In OE. ᵹeoᵹuþl{iacu}c; cf. OHG. jugundlîh.]
1. Pertaining to or characteristic of youth: = youthful 2.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. v. vi. (1890) 398 Ic ne wæs min mod fulfremedlice bewerᵹende þæm ᵹeoᵹuðlicum unalefednessum. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxvi. 323 Yet is Corinius..a valiant and puissant soldier,..and this one in his youthly age. 1923 H. J. Laski Let. 23 Oct. in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 553, I have read a new Early Life of Burke which is full of good things, especially in its recovery of some youthly essays of his which have not appeared before. |
| a 1536 Wyatt Love's Arraignm. v, Alwayes whetting my youthely desyer On the cruell whetstone tempered with fier. 1577 Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. viii. xii. 152 Two doughters,..which passed all other in..youthly comlines. 1590 Spenser Muiop. 431 And all his yougthly forces idly spent. 1685 Burnet Trav. iii. (1687) 97 Pope Nicolas the IV. who had..a youthly and womanish face. 1817 Shelley To Wm. Shelley 14 To a blighting faith and a cause of crime They have bound them slaves in youthly prime. |
2. Having youth or the characteristics of youth:
= youthful 1.
| 1566 Painter Pal. Pleas. I. Pref. 8 Faulting fooles and youthly heades. 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. ii. 40 All that youthly rout. a 1629 Hinde J. Bruen xxxvii. (1641) 116 This Master Done being young and youthly. 1767 Mickle Concub. i. xxxiii, While thus the Knight persewd the Shaddow Joy As youthly Spirits thoughtlesse led the Way. 1856 Chamb. Jrnl. 8 Nov. 301 Although still something too youthly in figure, [he] had a frame well knit. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy (1926) II. ii. xxviii. 347 All seeking a glimpse of the astonishingly youthly slayer. |
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† ˈyouthly adv. Obs. = youthfully.
| 1541 Paynell Conspir. Catil. 1 b, With men of sadnesse he lyued soberly,..with youth youthely. 1581 A. Hall Iliad vii. 131 Paris..youthly thus doth answere him. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis i. 590 His heunly moother amended His bush with trimming, his sight was yoouthlye bepurpled. |