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spitefully, adv.|ˈspaɪtfʊlɪ|
[f. prec.]
1. In a spiteful manner; with spite.
1532More Confut. Tindale 45 If the deuyll sholde hym self syt & deuise to speke spyghtfully. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 433 Marques Albert had written certen thinges spitefully and bitterly. 1635R. N. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. i. 30 Having been spightfully used with unworthy reproaches. 1646Crashaw Poems (1904) 139 Cruel Auster..Sham'd not spitefully to wast All his leaves. a1704T. Brown Let. M. Burghope Wks. 1711 IV. 255, I could dwell spightfully upon this Subject for an hour or two. 1714Swift Imit. Hor. i. vii, The farmers, spitefully combin'd, Force him to take his tithes in kind. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 388 A basket coop placed over a spitefully disposed hen. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 11 The spit of sandy rock which juts Spitefully northward.
†2. Excessively, extremely. Obs.—1
1567Trial Treas. (Percy Soc.) 38 My littell finger is spitefully sore: You will not beleue how my hele doth ake. |
