beneshiply

adv

beneshiply

adv

Etymology From beneship + -ly.

1

UK, Obsolete Excellently

  • The doxy dell can cut bene whids, And wap well for a win, And prig and cloy so beneshiply, All the dewse-a-vill within., x, "O per se O", "The Canting Song", quoted in 2013, The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts: : Previously published 1930 and 1965 (Routledge), edited by A. V. Judges, page 381
Synonyms
excellently

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