onely

English

Adverb

onely

  1. Obsolete spelling of only.
    • 1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman:
      Before the Sea and Lande were made,and Heauen that all doth hide, In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide,
    • 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
      All flesh is grasse, is not onely metaphorically, but literally true, for all those creatures we behold, are but the hearbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in our selves.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 62–64:
      on his right
      The radiant image of his Glory ſat,
      His onely Son;
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
      In which him chaunced false Duessa meete,
      Mine onely foe, mine onely deadly dread;
      Who with her witchcraft and misseeming sweete,
      Inveigled him to follow her desires unmeete.

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