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tragically, adv.|ˈtrædʒɪkəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2: see -ically.]
In a tragical manner or style.
1. With tragic feeling or expression; † in early use, with loud or passionate complaint.
1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 25 Paul might..tragically have cried out against them: O ungracious world. a1716South Serm. (1727) VI. 427 Many complain and cry out very tragically of the Wretchedness of their Hearts. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xviii. II. 116 He tragically lamented the cruel murder of Constans. Mod. A story very tragically told.
2. With calamitous, disastrous, or fatal issue.
1583in Hakluyt Voy. (1600) III. 154 Our voyage..ended tragically. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 384 This king that tragically raigned, being first deposed..tragically ended. 1693Dryden Juvenal's Sat. Ded. (1697) 71 As his Provocations were great, he has reveng'd them tragically. 1885Manch. Exam. 10 July 5/2 Their predictions have been only too tragically fulfilled.
†3. Grandiloquently, rhetorically. Obs. rare—1.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 548 And accordingly is it said of Numenius by him [Proclus], that τρεῖς ἀνυµνήσας θεούς, he did τραγωδῶν καλεῖν, πάππον, ἔγγονον, ἀπόγονον, having praised the Three Gods, Tragically or Affectedly called them, the Grandfather, the Son, and the Nephew. |