youngly

comparative more youngly · superlative most youngly

1. archaicLike a young person or thing; young; youthful.

   How youngly he began to serve his country

   c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 3

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   As I mine eye about-e cast, His larg-e beard-e then at last I saw; and thought anon therefore How that his father him before, Which stood upon the sam-e place, Was beardless, with a youngly face.

   1849, The Living Age, volume 23

   Preacher how dance bunny-trot. When Hon. Sadson got through, he feel quite puffed but very enjoyable and say that, if youngly men would dance with preachers, tango would seem quite sinless.

   1916, Good Housekeeping, volumes 62-63

   By the time he was a youngly adult dragon, he had secured a position as the most ruthless and feared bounty hunter in the Realm.

   2009, Jason DeGray, Absolutely True Retellings: the Saga of Shamus

   Synonyms: juvenile, youngsome

comparative more youngly · superlative most youngly

1. archaicWhile young; as a youth.

   And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st

   1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 11, line 3

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   In six sexless weeks the least "good" of the twenty or so French books I've read is the diary of the youngly-dead Jean-Rene Huguenin (all the rage), because it lacks gossip and carnality, the very stuff of journals.

   2013, Ned Rorem, The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

2. rareIn a young or youthful manner; youthfully

   The youngest should speak first, so if I chance In this case to speak youngly, pardon me.

   2002, Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, Vittorio Gabrielli, Sir Thomas More: By Anthony Munday and Others

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   The youngly born brother made no explanation of his sense of offense other than to go over and give Artie a stolid and resounding blow.

   1911, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, The Long Green Road

   Refusing to go back to writing things he now thought "youngly glamorous," like Soldiers' Pay, or "trashily smart," like Mosquitoes, he decided to go on even if it meant relinquishing his dream of success.

   2001, David L. Minter, Faulkner's Questioning Narratives

   […]he was also a divine personification, an actual figure, for example sculpted by Skopas (395—350 B.C.), which has been described as a “youngly ripened boy's body.”

   2010, Katherine Ramsland, Anne Rice Reader

   Here we sit, the little minister straight from the book, bashful and youngly anxious, and I the Egyptian, not dancing now with rowanberries in her hair, but sadly altered.

   2014vMargaret, Laurence, The Stone Angel