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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]seely (comparative seelier, superlative seeliest)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of sely or silly.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.57:
- Whereas the poore, the banished, and seely servants, live often as carelesly and as pleasantly as the other.