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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Like, or coming near to, white.

[Obs.]

adv.

Coming near to white. [Not used.]

whitely ‎(comparative more whitely, superlative most whitely)

(now rare, Scotland) White; pale. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, III.1:
  A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow, / With two pitch balles […] for eyes.

whitely ‎(comparative more whitely, superlative most whitely)

In a white manner. [from 14th c.]
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 161:
  an enemy aeroplane flew part of the way with us, and bomb after bomb burst flaming in the fields alongside, until ‘wished morn’ whitely appeared.