Now rare. [f. YOUNG a. + -LY2.]
1. In youth; when one is young; early in life.
1559. Mirr. Mag. (1563), P j. Euen in thy Swathebands out commission goeth To loose thy breath, that yet but yongly bloweth.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., xi. That fresh bloud which yongly thou bestow’st. Ibid. (1607), Cor., II. iii. 244. How youngly he began to serue his Countrey.
1888. Meredith, Reading of Earth, i. Flowers of the clematis drip in beard, Slack from the fir-tree youngly climbed.
2. In the manner of a young person; youthfully, immaturely.
c. 1530. More, Answ. Frith, Wks. 841/2. This point is as ye see well of thys young man very younglye handeled.
a. 1595. Sir T. More, IV. ii. 29. As tis the custome in this place The youngest should speake first, so, if I chaunce In this case to speake youngly, pardon me.
1607. Markham, Cavel., Ded. About foureteene yeres agone (when myne experience was but youngly fortified).
