Meanings
comparative more diversely · superlative most diversely · alternative archaic diversly
- In a diverse manner.
Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068
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adverbin diverse ways
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Origin
- Middle Englishdiverseliche, diversliche, dyverseli, dyversely, dyversliche, dyversly
- Englishdiversely
From Middle English diverseliche, diversliche, dyverseli, dyversely, dyversliche, dyversly, equivalent to diverse + -ly.
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Esperanto diverse
- diversediversely
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