different between soly vs soily

English

soly (not comparable)

Obsolete form of solely.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
  For Venus selfe doth soly couples seeme,
  Both male and female through commixture ioynd.

From soil +? -y.

soily (comparative soilier, superlative soiliest)

Covered in soil; earthy.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 9:
  A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
Resembling or characteristic of soil.
Dirty; soiled.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 333:
  Methinks, miss, said Sally, you are a little soily, to what we have seen you.
(obsolete) Apt to stain.

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