Word of the Day: LIBENTIOUSLY


ETYMOLOGY
as if from libentious (from Latin libentia, from libentemlibens (willing)) + -ous + -ly


EXAMPLE
“…Most-what by Women, sillie Girles, youths, firie-wits, Ambitious,
By great, by needy Mal-Contents, by Credulous, and Vitious,
Work Romes Committees, & from flesh to fare much more delicious
Penance their Puples: whitest Sons these Seedsters and Seditious.
And, that for them libentiously Fooles-Catholike should erre,
Pensions, Canonizing at least, on Rome-wrights they conferre
…”

From: A Continuance of Albions England
By William Warner, 1606

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