A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1533, 1626
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Infortunately, -atlie, adv. [e.m.E. -ately (1600).] Unfortunately. —1533 Boece viii. xiv. 283.
Saxons … knawing … how infortunately thare nacioun had fochtyn 1533 Ib. xiii. ii. 496 b.
Infortunatlie fechting at Renfrew all his folkis war slane 1626 Garden Worthies 69.
Pinkiefield, infortunatlie foughten & loost 1626 Ib. 124.
A gallant youth … ; infortunatlie drown'd … in a standing laike
