youngly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a young or youthful manner; youthfully
Example Sentences
- "How youngly he began to serve his country"
- "As I mine eye about-e cast, His larg-e beard-e then at last I saw; and thought anon therefore How that his father him before, Which stood upon the sam-e place, Was beardless, with a youngly face."
- "Preacher how dance bunny-trot. When Hon. Sadson got through, he feel quite puffed but very enjoyable and say that, if youngly men would dance with preachers, tango would seem quite sinless."
- "By the time he was a youngly adult dragon, he had secured a position as the most ruthless and feared bounty hunter in the Realm."
- "And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st"
- "In six sexless weeks the least "good" of the twenty or so French books I've read is the diary of the youngly-dead Jean-Rene Huguenin (all the rage), because it lacks gossip and carnality, the very stuff of journals."
Etymology
From Middle English yongly, ȝongly, ȝunglich, from Old English ġeonglīċ (“youthful”), equivalent to young + -ly.
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Inflected Forms
more youngly (comparative)
most youngly (superlative)