Meanings
comparative more manlessly · superlative most manlessly
- obsoleterareInhumanly.
[L]et her vvounds / Manleſly digd in her, be eaſd and cur'd / VVith balme of thine ovvne teares: […]
1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, page 681 more example
Thus furie-like ſhe [Andromache] vvent, / Tvvo vvomen (as ſhe vvill'd) at hand; and made her quicke aſcent / Vp to the tovvre, and preaſſe of men; her ſpirit in vprore. Round / She caſt her greedy eye, and ſavv, her Hector ſlaine, and bound / T' Achilles chariot; manleſly, dragg'd to the Grecian fleet.
[1611?], Homer, “The XXII. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 307
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