inly

adj

1. (obsolete)Inward; interior; secret.

   “Didst thou but know the inly touch of love Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow As seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

adv

1. (archaic)Inwardly, within; internally; secretly.

   “I have inly wept, Or should have spoke ere this.”

   “His offering soon propitious fire from heaven / Consumed with nimble glance, and grateful steam; / The other's not, for his was not sincere; / Whereat he inly raged,”

   “Thou hidden love of God, whose height, / Whose depth unfathom'd no man knows; I see from far they beauteous light, / Inly I sigh for thy repose:”

   “His heart inly relented,—there was a conflict,—but sin got the victory, and he set all the force of his rough nature against the conviction of his conscience.”

   “What mortal, when he saw, / Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, / Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly: / 'I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law; / The inly-written chart thou gavest me / To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end'?”

2. (obsolete)Heartily, completely, fully, thoroughly; extremely.

   “Ne was their salue, ne was their medicine, / That mote recure their wounds: so inly they did tine.”