"hooly" meaning in Middle English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|var=1}} hooly
  1. alternative form of holy (sacred) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: holy (extra: sacred)
    Sense id: en-hooly-enm-adj-ExPhvWW0 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries
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          "text": "1380, John Wycliffe (translator), Matthew: I, Bible, 1810, The New Testament, page 4,\nBut while he thougte these thingis: Lo the aungel of the Lord apperid in slep to him and seide Joseph the sone of David nyle thou drede to take Marie thy wyf, for that thing that is born in hir is of the hooly Goost.",
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          "english": "Who helped them when they lay so ill and weak",
          "text": "late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 17-18.\nThe hooly blisful martir for to seke\nThat hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.\nThe holy blessed martyr there to seek",
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