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Selfly vs Selly - What's the difference?

selfly | selly |

As adjectives the difference between selfly and selly

is that selfly is of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal while selly is rare; wonderful; admirable.

As adverbs the difference between selfly and selly

is that selfly is in, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic while selly is wonderfully.

As a noun selly is

a marvel; wonder; something wonderful or rare.

selfly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
  • * 2001 , Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology :
    • This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another [...]

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
  • * 1880 , Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester: for the first time ... :
    • Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light

    selly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Rare; wonderful; admirable.

    • Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • Wonderfully.

    • Noun

    (sellies)
  • A marvel; wonder; something wonderful or rare.
  • *1995 , Robert J. Blanch, Julian N. Wasserman, From Pearl to Gawain :
    • The line is a masterstroke of noncommitment, for the event is a "selly " in the sight of some unidentified readers.