sunderly meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

sunderly

adj

Etymology From Middle English sunderli, sonderli, from Old English sundorlīċ, synderlīċ, equivalent to sunder + -ly.

Archaic, Rare separate; distinct; individual; private

Then it was in forthgoing time, that he built him a sunderly dwelling, that he might in it freely serve God.1852, Alfred (England, King), The Whole Works:

adv

Etymology From Middle English sunderli, sonderli, from Old English sundorlīċe, synderlīċe, equivalent to sunder + -ly.

singly; one by one; individually; in a separate way or manner; separately

But as I deny not but as we may say the Pater noster, and the Ave Maria together (that to God, this to our Lady), so we may say them sunderly, the Pater noster by itself, and the Ave by itself; and the Pater noster is a whole and a perfect prayer, without the Ave Maria; […]1870, George Townsend, The acts and monuments of John Foxe: