Defn: Plainly; inelegantly. [R.]
HOMELINESS
Home"li*ness, n. Etym: [From Homely.]
1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.
2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison.
HOMELING
Home"ling, n.
Defn: A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.
HOMELY Home"ly, a. [Compar. Homelier; superl. Homeliest.] Etym: [From Home, n.]
1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic] With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray.