Sely meaning

(archaic) Fortunate, lucky, prosperous.

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(archaic) Simple, guileless; foolish, gullible; doting; ignorant.

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(archaic) Happy, pleasant.

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(archaic) Innocent, harmless; good.

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(archaic) Humble, lowly, poor.

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(archaic) Spiritually favored, blessed, holy, virtuous, righteous.

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(archaic) Worthy, noble, fine, excellent;

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(archaic) Wealthy (figurative)

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(archaic) Wretched, unfortunate, miserable, pitiable.

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(archaic) Weak, helpless, defenseless, hapless.

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(archaic) Worthless, trifling, insignificant.

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Origin of sely

from Middle English sely, from Old English sǣliġ (“blessed, fortunate”), (also gesǣliġ (“happy, prosperous, blessed, fortunate”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēlīgaz (“happy”), equivalent to seel +‎ -y. Cognate with West Frisian sillich, Dutch zalig (“blessed”), German selig (“blessed, overjoyed”).

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