adv. Obs. Forms: (see prec.). [f. prec.] = VILLAINLY adv., VILLAINOUSLY adv.
α. a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 1498. That he shulde feele … What sorowe trewe louers maken, That ben so velaynesly forsaken. Ibid. (c. 1386), Pars. T., ¶ 12. Than was his visage … vileynsly byspit.
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1908), 225. Ȝit was hir sorwe moche more, seynge hir maister and lorde so vileynsly ferde with.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. c. (1869), 112. Thou shalt neuere keepe thee so wel, that thou ne shalt be vileynesliche treted.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 47. Thai war discomfyte rycht vilaynsly.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 191/3. Whan they had so vylaynsly beten hym they put hym out of the cyte.
β. 1388. Wyclif, 2 Sam. x. 5. The men weren schent ful vilensly.
a. 1400. Cast. Love (Halliwell), 1628. How vylensli he wes ladde ȝet, With crowne of thornes on his hed set.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., IV. 165. Þat þe commonys willansly Grewit sulde be throw þar mastry. Ibid., V. 1676. Þat he … had supprysit hyr welansly.
1460. Capgrave, Chron. (Rolls), 233. Thei that were his rebelles he killid vilensly.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. liii. 503. Whanne syre Harre sawe hym doo so vyloynsly, he cryed traytour knyȝt leue of for shame.
1487. Barbour’s Bruce, V. 164. Thai nobill men and thai worthy Ar distroyit so vilonisly!
c. 1500. Gest Robyn Hode, cxiii., in Child, Ballads, III. 62. The abbot lothely on hym gan loke, And vylanesly hym gan call.
