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featly
[ feet-lee ]
adverb
- suitably; appropriately.
- skillfully; nimbly.
- neatly; elegantly.
adjective
- graceful; elegant.
featly
/ ˈfiːtlɪ /
adverb
- neatly
- fitly
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Derived Forms
- ˈfeatliness, noun
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Other Words From
- feat·li·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of featly1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English fetly; feat 2, -ly ( def 3 )
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Example Sentences
These maidens begin to dance on the green grass, and so featly do they step that they scarce seem to touch the ground.
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Aucassin was the name of the damoiseau: fair was he, goodly, and great, and featly fashioned of his body and limbs.
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Think you that our muckle clumsy bodies could run and hide as featly?
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Then foot it featly; that you may say hereafter you remember when your mother was first married, and danced at her wedding.
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The lane was a place of enchantment—a long, moonlit colonnade adown which beguiling wood nymphs might have footed it featly.
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