Wone vs Wontedly - What's the difference?
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(obsolete, or, archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), '', Volume 2, vii:20 (''see also xii:11)
* 1748 , , I:XXXVII
(obsolete, or, archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17
* 1596 , '', Volume 2, iii:18 (''see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)
Usually, customarily, or habitually.
* 2008 , Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider:
* 1973 , Madeleine L'Engle, A wind in the door:
* 1908 , Henry James, The awkward age:
Wontedly is a related term of wone.
As a noun wone
is a dwelling.As a verb wone
is to live, reside, stay.As an adverb wontedly is
usually, customarily, or habitually.wone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* won, wonneNoun
(en noun)- What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold
- So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?
- Or where hast thou thy wonne , that so much gold
- Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?
- On the cool height awhile out Palmers ?tay,
- And ?pite even of them?elves their Sen?es chear;
- Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ?teer.
Verb
(won)- Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned.
- For now the best and noblest knight alive
- Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond;
- He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.
Etymology 2
Southern variant of .Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Synonyms
* (l)Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) ----wontedly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- What if she happened to meet him! Would he imagine her purpose in coming there? Her heart began to beat un-wontedly .
- "My dear child," Mr. Jenkins said, and his voice was un-wontedly compassionate.
- It matched for that matter her other elements, which were wontedly conspicuous as usual as she sat there suggestive of early tea.