selfly
/ˈsɛlfli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
adv
In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
Example Sentences
- "This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selfishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another […]"
- "Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light"
Etymology
From Middle English selfly, from Old English selflīċ (“automatic, spontaneous, voluntary”); equivalent to self + -ly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more selfly (comparative)
most selfly (superlative)