somedeal
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of somedeal
before 900; Middle English somdel, Old English sume dǣle, dative of sum dǣl some portion. See some, deal 1
Example Sentences
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Now shall I tell thee—did I not before?—that while I am a maid untouched, my wisdom, and somedeal of might, abideth with me, and only so long.
From Wood Beyond the World by Morris, William
And when men have gathered it, then cometh the white that is somedeal less than the black.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
The voice is hoarse, swelling groweth in the body, and many small botches and whelks hard and round, in the legs and in the utter parts; feeling is somedeal taken away.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
Claverhouse laughed a little stern laugh like a man that is forced to laugh at himself, yet is somedeal proud of what he hears.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
And despise somedeal the usages of other men in comparison to their own usage.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
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