a. Obs. rare. [f. BOWEL sb.1 + -LY1.] Having ‘bowels,’ compassionate, sympathetic.
a. 1637. N. Ferrar, trans. Valdés’ 110 Consid. (1638), 184. From this bowelly affection … it proceeds that a man loues God aboue all things.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., xxii. (1669), 482/1. So we may pray with a more bowelly sense of their wants for them.
