Meanings
comparative more warely · superlative most warely
- obsoleteWatchfully; with caution.
Arriued there, the dore they find faſt lockt; / For it was warely watched night and day […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 1361 more example
He that betrayed hym / gave them a generall token / ſayinge: whoſoever I do kiſſe / he it is / take hym / and leade hym awaye warely.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[44], folio lxvij, verso
Origin
- Old Englishwærlice
- Middle Englishwareli
- Englishwarely
From Middle English wareli, wearliche, from Old English wærlice, corresponding to ware + -ly.
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