inly

From Middle English inly, from Old English inlīc (“inner, inward”), equivalent to in +‎ -ly.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnli/
• Rhymes: -ɪnli

inly (comparative more inly, superlative most inly)

1. (obsolete) Inward; interior; secret.
   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

     Didst thou but know the inly touch of love
     Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
     As seek to quench the fire of love with words.

From Middle English inly, inliche, from Old English inlīċe (“inwardly”), equivalent to in +‎ -ly.

inly (comparative more inly, superlative most inly)

1. (now rare) Inwardly, within; internally; secretly.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     I have inly wept,
     Or should have spoke ere this.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 441–444:

     His offering soon propitious fire from heaven / Consumed with nimble glance, and grateful steam; / The other's not, for his was not sincere; / Whereat he inly raged,

   • 1738, Paul Gerhardt, “Thou Hidden Love of God”, in John Wesley, transl., The Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book‎, London, published 1869, page 325:

     Thou hidden love of God, whose height, / Whose depth unfathom'd no man knows; I see from far they beauteous light, / Inly I sigh for thy repose:

   • 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “35”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume II, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:

     His heart inly relented,—there was a conflict,—but sin got the victory, and he set all the force of his rough nature against the conviction of his conscience.

   • 1852, Matthew Arnold, “Human Life”, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867‎, Oxford University Press, published 1909, lines 1–6:

     What mortal, when he saw, / Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, / Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly: / 'I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law; / The inly-written chart thou gavest me / To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end'?

   • 1909, Thomas Hardy, “The Flirt's Tragedy”, in Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses‎, London: Macmillan & Co., published 1928:

     Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.

   • 1914, Rabindranath Tagore, The King of the Dark Chamber‎, New York: Macmillan, page 132:

     A mighty forest inly smokes and smoulders before it bursts into a conflagration:

2. (obsolete) Heartily, completely, fully, thoroughly; extremely.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne was their salue, ne was their medicine, / That mote recure their wounds: so inly they did tine.

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inly

1. heartily; completely
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Friar's Tale,

     And they were inly glad to fill his purse,
     And make him greate feastes at the nale.

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