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▪ I. † ˈdreadly, a. Obs.
Also 3 dredlich, 4 dredli.
[f. dread n. + -ly1.]
= dreadful 1, 2.
a1225Ancr. R. 58 þis is a swuðe dredlich word to wummen. a1300Body & Soul 12 in Map's Poems (Mätz.) With dredli mod.
▪ II. dreadly, adv.|ˈdrɛdlɪ|
[f. dread a. + -ly2.]
1. In a manner inspiring dread; dreadfully, awfully, terribly.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 143 Vre drihten wile cumen dredliche in fures liche. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 25 Alle þo, þat..dredly astonyen þe ordinaryes & here offycerys. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iv. Captains 224 So shall you see a Cloud crown'd Hill sometime..Dreadly to shake. 1751W. Mason Elfrida Poems (1773) 127 Dreadly sweeping thro' the vaulted sky. 1849Lytton King Arthur I. 11 With mangled plumes and mantles dreadly rent.
2. With dread or awe. rare.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 181, I should go in fear of my life.. and dream full dradly on't every night. 1847R. W. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath i. (1848) 18 The sabbath..was jealously reckoned and dreadly revered.
3. Comb., as dreadly deep, dreadly-glorious, dreadly-sad, etc.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 196 Sound round the Cels of the Ocean dradly-deep. |