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fearfully, adv.|ˈfɪəfʊlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
I. objectively: With communication of fear.
1. So as to cause fear; dreadfully; terribly.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 245 b, The..impenitent synners..be..drawen downe to hell moost terribly or feerfully. 1586Cogan Haven Health ccxli. (1636) 272 That hee bee not waked sodainely and fearefully. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. i. 77 There is a Cliffe, whose..bending head Lookes fearfully in the confined Deepe. 1641Hinde J. Bruen xlvi. 148 This wicked fellow..within three dayes died most fearefully. 1821Shelley Adonais lv, I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxv, I was yesterday fearfully undeceived.
2. To a fearful extent or degree. Often hyperbolically as a mere intensive: cf. fearful 2.
1835Dickens Let. 16 Dec. (1965) I. 106 This place is fearfully dull, and I have seen neither a newspaper or a book since I came down here. 1838― Nich. Nick. ii, Smoking fearfully. 1862Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iii. 95 The evils arising from the use of alcohol have been fearfully aggravated by the invention of distillation. 1878Smiles Robt. Dick vii. 76 It was fearfully warm. 1878Mrs. H. Wood Pomeroy Ab. I. 25 Dinner? that's right, I am fearfully hungry.
II. subjectively: With a feeling of fear.
3. In a manner indicating fear; timidly, in fear.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. iii. 7 They demaunde of him fearfully what he thinketh best for them to do. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. v. iii, I might observe The graver statesmen whispering fearefully. 1658Cleveland Rustic Rampant Wks. (1687) 501 The Abbot..fearfully summons in his Friends to guard him. 1730Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 8 Walk as prudently as you can, though not fearfully. 1832Marryat N. Forster xix, A black head was seen to rise..fearfully out of the fore-scuttle.
†4.
a. In a state of apprehension or uneasiness; anxiously.
b. Cautiously, with hesitation. Obs.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 28 This pure living (once in manner lost, afterwards recovered and yet stil fearefully kept). 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. i. 147 Whosoeuer shall..march slow or fearefully. c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1683) 18 The Spaniards..compelled our foot to retire fearfully. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Hunt, His old Hounds..will hunt leisurely and fearfully. |
