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sternly, adv.|ˈstɜːnlɪ|
Forms: see stern a. and -ly2.
In a stern manner (see the senses of the adj.); with sternness of temper, aspect, utterance, etc.; severely, harshly, unbendingly; † fiercely, cruelly; † loudly.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxviii. 197 Ac he him sona ondwyrde, & him suiðe stiernlice stierde. c1205Lay. 25240 Þa wes Arðures hired sturneliche awraððed. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 183 A mous..Stroke forth sternly and stode biforn hem alle. c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 408 (Pepys MS.) A piler..Of yren wrought full sternely [Bodl. sturnelye, Fairf. sturmely]. c1385― L.G.W. 239 For sternely on me he gan beholde. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. xii. (Tollemache MS.) Þese Goothes were sternely [1495 cruelly] killid. a1400Morte Arth. 745 Sterynly thay songene [said of the sailors of a fleet]. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 37 He..strooke at him so sternely, that he made An open passage through his riven brest. 1615Chapman Odyss. ix. 402 No mountaine Lion tore Two Lambs so sternly. 1671Milton P.R. i. 406 To whom our Saviour sternly thus replied. a1771Gray Dante 56 Father, why, why do you gaze so sternly? 1835Hawthorne Tales & Sk., Dr. Bullivant (1879) 136 We see the mountains rising sternly and with frozen summits up to heaven. 1846Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 147 He was sternly told that his defence was not satisfactory. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxv, I must be just, and sternly just, to myself, even if God be indulgent. 1911Q. Rev. July 123 The Mildmay household was sternly Puritan.
Comb.1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 1114 Sternly-valiant to the stubborn-stout. 1808Wordsw. George & Sarah Green 17 Those sternly-featured hills. 1814― Excurs. vi. 853 A sternly-broken vow. |