Definition of Liefly

1. lief [adv] - See also: lief

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liefly

lieberkuhn
lieberkuhn's glands
liebfraumilch
liebfraumilchs
liebigite
lied
lieder
lieder singer
liedertafel
liedertafels
liedlike
lief
lief(p)
liefer
liefest
liefly (current term)
liefs
liefsome
liegance
liegances
liege
liege subject
liegedom
liegedoms
liegeman
liegemen
lieger
liegers
lieges
liegewoman

Literary usage of Liefly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold (1866)
"They are faulty, first, because, as a matter of diction, the expressions " 0 gentle friend," "eld," "in sooth," "liefly," "advance," "man-ennobling," " sith ..."

2. On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1896)
"They are faulty, first, because, as a matter of diction, the expressions ' O gentle friend,' ' eld, 'in sooth,' 'liefly,' 'advance,' 'man-ennobling,' 'sith ..."

3. Essays by Matthew Arnold: Including Essays in Criticism, 1865, On by Matthew Arnold, Francis William Newman (1914)
"... Nor liefly thee would I advance to man-ennobling battle'—for whose ears do those two rhythms produce impressions of, to use Mr. Newman's own words, ..."

4. Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal Geography by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1856)
"On the 18th the Rescue joined the Advance and liefly in the island of Disco, ... A few weeks after leaving liefly, they fell in with the fleet of British ..."

5. On the Study of Celtic Literature ; And, On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1899)
"They are faulty, first, because, as a matter of diction, the expressions "0 gentle friend," "eld," "in sooth," "liefly," "advance," "man-ennobling," "sith," ..."

6. A Pictorial Geography of the World by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1856)
"On the 18th the Rescue joined the Advance and liefly in the island of Disco, ... A few weeks after leaving liefly, they fell in with the fleet of British ..."

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