sunderly
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English sunderli, sonderli, from Old English sundorlīċ, synderlīċ, equivalent to sunder + -ly.
Adjective
[edit]sunderly (comparative more sunderly, superlative most sunderly)
- (rare, archaic) separate; distinct; individual; private
- 1852, Alfred (England, King), The Whole Works:
- Then it was in forthgoing time, that he built him a sunderly dwelling, that he might in it freely serve God.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English sunderli, sonderli, from Old English sundorlīċe, synderlīċe, equivalent to sunder + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]sunderly (comparative more sunderly, superlative most sunderly)
- singly; one by one; individually; in a separate way or manner; separately
- 1870, George Townsend, The acts and monuments of John Foxe:
- 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; […]
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