▪ I. † youngly, a. Obs.
[OE. ᵹeonglic = MDu. jongelîk, OHG., MHG. junglîch, ON. ungligr: see young a. and -ly1.]
Young, youthful, juvenile (in years, in appearance or condition).
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 54 Iuuenilis, iunglic. c 1000 ― Hom. II. 118 On ᵹeonglicum ᵹearum. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 544 A meiden ȝunglich of ȝeres. c 1290 St. Brendan 704 in S. Eng. Leg. 239 Þo cam to heom a ȝonglich man. a 1300 E.E. Psalter cxviii[i]. 141 Yongelike am I, and hated for-þi. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 369 Beerdles with a yongly face. 1478 Earl Rivers Crystyne's Mor. Prov. (1859) 2 b, A yongly man of chastisyng content Is signe of grace & of a good entent. 1542 Boorde Dyetary xxxix. (1870) 300 A mery herte and mynde..causeth a man to lyue longe, and to loke yongly. a 1577 Sir T. Smith in Strype Life (1698) App. 42 Look what Ladies and Gentlewomen be most fruitful, and have most Children, if they look not for their Age most youngly, best coloured, and be clearest from Diseases. 1634 [see infantry 2]. |
▪ II. youngly, adv. Now rare.
(ˈjʌŋlɪ)
[f. young a. + -ly2.]
1. In youth; when one is young; early in life.
| 1559 Mirr. Mag. (1563) P j, Euen in thy Swathebands out commission goeth To loose thy breath, that yet but yongly bloweth. c 1600 Shakes. Sonn. xi, That fresh bloud which yongly thou bestow'st. 1607 ― Cor. ii. iii. 244 How youngly he began to serue his Countrey. 1888 Meredith Reading of Earth i, Flowers of the clematis drip in beard, Slack from the fir-tree youngly climbed. |
2. In the manner of a young person; youthfully, immaturely.
| c 1530 More Answ. Frith Wks. 841/2 This point is as ye see well of thys young man very younglye handeled. a 1596 Sir T. More iv. ii. 29 As tis the custome in this place The youngest should speake first, so, if I chaunce In this case to speake youngly, pardon me. 1607 Markham Cavel. Ded., About foureteene yeres agone (when myne experience was but youngly fortified). 1922 Joyce Ulysses 192 Yes, Mr. Best said youngly, I feel Hamlet quite young. |