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desolately, adv.|ˈdɛsələtlɪ| [f. desolate a. + -ly2.] In a desolate manner; solitarily, by oneself (obs.); drearily, dismally, cheerlessly.
1548Hall Chron. 218 b, That kyng Henry her husband, was desolately left post a lone. a1699Bates Wks. IV. Serm. iv. (R.), Nehemiah..all the pleasures of the Persian court could not satisfy, whilst Jerusalem was desolately miserable. 1831Q. Rev. Jan. in Byron's Wks. (1846) 470/2 note, There is..nothing more mournfully and desolately beautiful. a1851Moir Poems, Des. Churchyard vii, The wind amid the hemlock-stalks Would desolately sing. †b. Abandonedly, dissolutely. Obs.
1608J. King Serm. 5 Nov. 17 The most abominably, desolately, deperditely wicked of all others. |