Middle English Dictionary Entry
dignelī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | dignelī adv. Also -lich(e. |
| Etymology | From digne . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Worthily, honorably, nobly; (b) fittingly, suitably; (c) deservedly; (d) proudly, pretentiously.
Associated quotations
a
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)520 : He has don his deuere dignely as he out.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)5/19 : Wiþ þat comen þe angels so dignelich fram heuene.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.62 : Þe freris..wolen sette wiþ lordis and ladies at þe mete ful dignely.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)13/148 : By juste cause the name of goddesse dignely ye mowe bere!
b
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)20/35 : Þou nere naȝt digneliche y-diȝt be ssrifþe.
- c1350 Ayenb.App.(Arun 57)267/36 : Huyche none mannes speche dingnelyche may telle.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)4567 : Sete so in solas sadli ful þe halle, eche dingneli at his degre.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)8.158 : Dowel on Domesday Is digneliche I-preiset.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.6.100 : The same thyng mai I most digneliche [L dignius] juggen.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.10.91 : I am beknowe and confesse, and that ryght dignely, that God is ryght worthy aboven alle thinges.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)36 : Who so taketh it digneliche may not be that he ne haue allegeaunce.
c
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)32/881 : Þou hest ofserued dygnelyche Þe pyne of helle vere.
d
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.1024 : Towchyng thi lettre..I woot thow nylt it dygneliche endite, As make it with thise argumentes tough.