adv. Now rare or Obs. [f. VILD a. Common c. 1590–1650.] = VILELY adv.

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1575.  Churchyard, Chippes (1817), 127. So vildly agaynst my honour and trueth.

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1588.  Babington, Prof. Exp. Lord’s Pr. (1596), 234. To haue true good will … so vnkindely, yea so vildly requited.

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1602.  Middleton, Phœnix, II. ii. 328. Captain? off with that noble title! thou becomest it vildly.

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1655.  Theophania, 162. If Parmenio had sense of honor, he could not thus vildly blemish the vertue of Artemia.

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1681.  Hickeringill, Black Non-Conf., ii. Wks. 1716, II. 20. They are vildly loth to lose their domineering, insulting Kingdom of Darkness.

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1748.  Mendez, Sqr. Dames, II. xxix., in Dodsley, Coll. Poems (1755), IV. 150. Have I not cause to weep from rising morn … To see my dearling’s fame thus vildly torn?

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