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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as vilely.

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Examples

  • 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

  • _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

  • 4 Which stunck so vildly, that it forst him slacke

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • 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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