featously

adv

featously

adv

Etymology From featous + -ly.

1

Obsolete Attractively, beautifully.

  • Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre / And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede.c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
  • Mansell is a merry one and is right worthy love, / Whom Nature wrought so featously her cunning for to prove.c. 1570, Richard Edwardes, Collected Works, Manchester, published 2001:

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