heartly

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈhɑːtli/(UK)
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/ˈhɑːtli/(UK) · /ˈhɑɹtli/(US)

Definition of heartly

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (rare)Full of heart; cordial; from the heart; hearty
    “'[…] I wish you very good fortune.' He found a card of his own. 'If I can be of any help to you' His hand was gripped. 'Very kind indeed. My heartliest thanks.' The man bowed and strode off into the mist.”
    “He said the sword was a “heartly present” because it had been hand-made by its donor.”
    “Great scarcity of every necessary of life in this house but the man is glad to see us, and gives us the best he has got with a heartly welcome.”
    ““Heartly,” he said—they celebrated in a heartly way,” and two days later now, I can't even remember the Hindi word, but the concept remains, and how am I going to give this up?”
    “Out of the largest and deepest well of everlasting life in the most open wound in Christ's blessed side seize up deepest and heartliest water of joy and bliss without end, beholding there inwardly how Christ Jesu, God and man, to bring thee to everlasting life, […]”
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adj

  1. (rare)Full of heart; cordial; from the heart; hearty
    “'[…] I wish you very good fortune.' He found a card of his own. 'If I can be of any help to you' His hand was gripped. 'Very kind indeed. My heartliest thanks.' The man bowed and strode off into the mist.”
    “He said the sword was a “heartly present” because it had been hand-made by its donor.”
    “Great scarcity of every necessary of life in this house but the man is glad to see us, and gives us the best he has got with a heartly welcome.”
    ““Heartly,” he said—they celebrated in a heartly way,” and two days later now, I can't even remember the Hindi word, but the concept remains, and how am I going to give this up?”
    “Out of the largest and deepest well of everlasting life in the most open wound in Christ's blessed side seize up deepest and heartliest water of joy and bliss without end, beholding there inwardly how Christ Jesu, God and man, to bring thee to everlasting life, […]”

adv

  1. (archaic)In a hearty or heart-felt manner; cordially; heartily

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English hertly, hertely, hertelyche, from Old English *heortlīċ, *ġeheortlīċ (attested only as an adverb: ġeheortlīċe (“thoroughly, virorously”)), equivalent to heart + -ly.

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