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Wisly

Wisly \Wis"ly\, adv. [See Wis, adv.] Certainly. [Obs.] ``God so wisly have mercy on me.''
--Chaucer.

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wisly

adv. (context rare dialectal or obsolete English) certainly; surely.

Usage examples of "wisly".

For Godde's love come from the tree adown And, as I am a kinge's daughter true, If that I verily the causes knew Of your disease,* if it lay in my might, *distress I would amend it, ere that it were night, So wisly help me the great God of kind.