adv. Obs. Forms: α. 4 uilein-, vileyn-, vyleyn-, vilain-, vylaynliche; 4 vilayn-, 5–6 vylayn-, 6 villaynly. β. 4 vilanliche, 5 wylanlyche; 4 vilenlych, villenliche, 4 vylenly, 5 velenly. [f. VILLAIN a. + -LY2.] After the manner of a villain; villainously, vilely.
α. a. 1325. MS. Rawl. B. 520, fol. 49 b. Homsokne: þat is quite of amerciament for entre of houses uileinliche ant bi-þoute leue aȝen þe kinges pes.
1340. Ayenb., 64. Efterward huanne me zuereþ vileynliche by god and by his halȝen.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 5345. How wer þou so hardy,… come armed on þy stede,… & þus vylayn[li]che on þy resoun þy message to me abede?
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, e vij b. Within a lytell tyme after she deide vylaynly and sodenly of an euyll deth.
c. 1500. Melusine, xxi. 130. Perceyue you not how this Dogges oppressen vylaynly these valyaunt & worthy crystens?
a. 1560. Phaër, Æneid, IX. Aa iij b. If but one harme Suffized had their sinne, and not with spyte all female kinds Thus villaynly disdain.
β. c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 5794 (Kölbing). So þai deden, sikerliche, Defuiland vilanliche, Toward … king Rion.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 1825. To … presenty til him with such outrage þay heuedes bi-fore him selue, & so vylenly beode ys message.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 7499. Thow art now dede and ouerthrowen,… Velenly thow hast thi mede.
a. 1450. Le Morte Arth., 1156. Thou oughtiste with no Ryghte to gabbe on hym so wylanlyche, thus be-hynde hym, oute of hys syghte.
