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hooly

Etymology 1 a. (context archaic English) holy. Etymology 2

adv. (context archaic or Scotland English) wholly; all the way.

Usage examples of "hooly".

Behema had her kid and Mickey had his broken leg wherein our dear Hooly died, of pneumonia and exposure and downers.

Vearus scored in a village hooly game, a record number that probably still stands.

Human taunters threw brogans and coins, jabbed at them with old hooly sticks, anything at all to tease the stabbing horns of the chained beasts.

I thought it was a hooly player from the Rivals whose talent was the short field by the slag pile.

Human taunters threw brogans and coins, jabbed at them with old hooly sticks, anything at all to tease the stabbing horns of the chained beasts.

She blesseth hir, and with ful pitous voys Unto the croys of Crist thus seyde she, "O cleere, o welful auter, hooly croys, Reed of the lambes blood, ful of pitee, That wesshe the world fro the olde iniquitee, Me fro the feend and fro his clawes kepe, That day that I shal drenchen in the depe.

Upon his beere ay lith this innocent Biforn the chief auter, whil masse laste, And after that, the abbot with his covent Han sped hem for to burien hym ful faste, And whan they hooly water on hym caste, Yet spak this child, whan spreynd was hooly water, And song "O Alma redemptoris mater.

Have heer my trouthe, as thou art his espye, Telle where he is, or thou shalt it abye, By God and by the hooly sacrament, For soothly thou art oon of his assent To sleen us yonge folk, thou false theef?

In vertu and in hooly almus-dede They lyven alle, and never asonder wende Til deeth departed hem.