sacredly

From sacred +‎ -ly.

sacredly (comparative more sacredly, superlative most sacredly)

1. In a sacred manner.
   • 1637, Thomas Nabbes, Hannibal and Scipio, London: Charles Greene, Act II, Scene 3,

     Scip[io]. […] Remember Syphax

     Thy vow hath made thee Romes.

     Syph[ax]. Which Ile preserve

     As sacredly inviolate, as if

     Eternall seales had ratifi’d it.

   • 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edlin, […]; W[illiam] Mears, […]; J. Brotherton, […]; C. King, and J. Stags, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 136:

     [H]e protested to me, that if he was naked in Bed with me, he would as sacredly preserve my Virtue, as he would defend it if I was assaulted by a Ravisher […]

   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXI, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI:

     […] I have a communication of a very private—indeed, I will say, of a sacredly confidential nature, which I desire to make to you.

   • 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter 26, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing), →OCLC:

     Each girl has to read her story out loud and then we talk it over. We are going to keep them all sacredly and have them to read to our descendants […]

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Mr Rottcodd Again”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     Satisfaction because the ritual of Gormenghast was proceeding as sacredly and deliberately as ever before […]

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