ˈsuantly, adv. Now dial.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
Regularly, evenly, uniformly, smoothly.
The form sewantly of quot. 1592–3 was entered in Kersey's ed. of Phillips World of Words (1706) as sevantly with def. ‘well, honestly’. Some mod. dicts. have copied this and have further invented a form sevant adj.
| 1547 Recorde Judic. Uryne 18 b, Not suantly and uniformly joyned together. 1592–3 Act 35 Eliz. c. 10 §1 That eche sorte of the saide Kersyes or Dozens shalbe sewantly woven throughout. 1865 Jennings Obs. Dial. W. Eng. 73 Suently, evenly, smoothly, plainly. |