Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
vilely .
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Examples
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Agair and atgai she has thought that she has found happiness and was vildly and unduly elated thereby, and has had her hopes dashed to the ground.
A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962
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_Vild_ and _vildly_ are blunders in old spelling, only to be retained when, as now, we give the words of an author in the very orthography of that date.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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4 Which stunck so vildly, that it forst him slacke
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Old copy, _cats_.] [300] [A Knight of the Post was a person hired to swear anything -- a character often mentioned in old writers.] [301] Some persons, not merely without reason, but directly against it, treat _vild_ and _vile_, and consequently vildly and _vilely_, as distinct words.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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