Selfly

Origin

From Middle English selfly, from Old English selflīċ ("automatic, spontaneous, voluntary"), equivalent to self + -ly.

Full definition of selfly

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
• 2001, Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology:This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another ...

Adverb

1. In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
• 1880, Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester: for the first time ...:Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light