sickerly

English

Etymology

From Middle English sikerly; equivalent to sicker +‎ -ly.

Adverb

sickerly

1. (obsolete outside dialects) Certainly.
   • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe:

     My Lord sickerly, / Quoth he, faine would I your pleasure fulfill.

   • 1634, Richard Brome, Thomas Heywood, The Late Lancashire Witches:

     Awa awaw, sayn yeou this sickerly, or done you but jaum me?

   • 1742, Robert Forbes, Ajax His Speech to the Grecian Knabs:

     My gentle bleed […] Right sickerly does plead.