English
guilefully
Guilefully comes from Middle English gilefuli.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gilefuli
- Englishearliest quotation 1596guilefully
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gilefuli
- Englishearliest quotation 1596guilefully
Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Book V, Canto XI: “Sith which she hath me ever since abhord, And…”
Every English word from Middle English gilefuli
Today it means
adv In a guileful manner.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English gilefuli / guilefully