youthly

English

Etymology

From Middle English *youthly, *youthlich, from Old English ġeoguþlīċ, corresponding to youth +‎ -ly.

Adjective

youthly (comparative more youthly, superlative most youthly)

  1. (archaic) Youthful.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
      he hath left his plumes all hoary gray, / And deckt himselfe with feathers youthly gay [...].
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