warely
Watchfully; with caution.
Adverb
- Watchfully; with caution.
- He that betrayed hym / gave them a generall token / ſayinge: whoſoever I do kiſſe / he it is / take hym / and leade hym awaye warely. - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms,...
- Arriued there, the dore they find faſt lockt; / For it was warely watched night and day […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC,...
Origin
From Middle English wareli, wearliche, from Old English wærlice, corresponding to ware + -ly.