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seely

[see-lee]

see·ly

[see-lee]
adjective Archaic.
1.
insignificant or feeble; poor.
2.
happy; auspicious.
3.
good; pious; blessed.
4.
foolish; simple-minded.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English sely, Old English gesǣlig happy, equivalent to sǣl happiness + -ig -y1; cognate with Dutch zalig, German selig; akin to Old Norse sæll, Gothic sēls good, Old English sēl better; see silly

see·li·ly, adverb
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Seely is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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