soly
See also: Sóly
English
editAdverb
editsoly (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of solely.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Seeing her selfe all soly succourlesse.
- 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For Venus selfe doth soly couples seeme, / Both male and female through commixture ioynd.