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Valid in Scrabble
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- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
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- 4
Definition of ruly
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (obsolete)Pitiable; miserable.
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adj
- (obsolete)Pitiable; miserable.
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(rare)Neat and orderly.
“What is certain is that everything they see is strange: the lifeless neatness of the courtyard, the straightness of the paths, the ruly gang of labourers in their dull uniforms and with their ageless, polished faces.”
“1610: John Marston, Histrio-Mastix, page 28 (quarto): [Perpetuana:] Nay Ile be matchlesse for a carckanet,/Whose Pearles and Diamonds plac'd with ruly rocks/Shall circle this faire necke to set it forth [.]”
adv
- (obsolete)Pitiably; miserably.
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Etymology
From Middle English rewly, ruly, rewely, reweliche, from Old English hrēowlīċ (“grievous, pitiful, sad, wretched, cruel”), equivalent to rue + -ly.
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