selfly

adverb

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Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlfli/

Etymology: From Middle English selfly, from Old English selflīċ (“automatic, spontaneous, voluntary”); equivalent to self + -ly.

Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
“This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selfishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another […]”

Etymology: From Middle English selfly, from Old English selflīċ (“automatic, spontaneous, voluntary”); equivalent to self + -ly.

In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
“Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light”