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GRIEVOUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a grievous manner
Example:
the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival
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Pertainym:
grievous (causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm)
Context examples:
Most grievously was she humbled.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That the manner in which she treated the dreadful crime committed by her brother and my sister (with whom lay the greater seduction I pretended not to say), but the manner in which she spoke of the crime itself, giving it every reproach but the right; considering its ill consequences only as they were to be braved or overborne by a defiance of decency and impudence in wrong; and last of all, and above all, recommending to us a compliance, a compromise, an acquiescence in the continuance of the sin, on the chance of a marriage which, thinking as I now thought of her brother, should rather be prevented than sought; all this together most grievously convinced me that I had never understood her before, and that, as far as related to mind, it had been the creature of my own imagination, not Miss Crawford, that I had been too apt to dwell on for many months past.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
