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▪ I. † ˈgriefly, adv. Obs. [f. grief a. + -ly2.] Grievously, ‘sadly’.
1340–70Alisaunder 490 Yee beene greefly bigo, but grace you falle. Ibid. 994 Whan I was greefly bigo with a grim people. 1577T. Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 20 By this my troublous toyle and grefe, and griefly pinchyng paine. ▪ II. [griefly, a. Explained as: Indicative of grief. Error for griesly grisly a. (through misreading ſ for f).
[a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1590) 165 b, Grisly [edd. 1629, 1633 griesly] Grones. ]1881Davies Suppl. Eng. Gloss., Griefly [quoting the above as ‘griefly groans’]. Hence in some later Dicts.] |