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heinously, adv.|ˈheɪnəslɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] 1. In a heinous manner or degree; hatefully, odiously; atrociously, infamously.
c1440York Myst. xxviii. 294 Euen like a theffe heneusly. a1529Skelton Poems agst. Garnesche 144 Your brethe..so haynously doth stynke. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 56 She answered, that she had rather die, then so haynously transgresse the law. 1670Baxter Cure Ch. Div. Pref. iii. §5 When God hath been so heinously dishonoured by it. †2. Grievously, severely, sorely; esp. in phr. to take heinously: to take in ill part, to be grievously offended at. Obs. b. In late use, as a strong intensive: Very badly, shockingly, dreadfully.
1552Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 24 God will plague and most heinously punish them. 1632Brome Northern Lasse i. vii. Wks. 1873 III. 19 Tell your Cuz how hainously I take it. 1649Milton Eikon. 43 Lest the Parlament..might have resented too hainously his doings. 1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. iv. vi, I'm hainously mistaken if thou beest not cheated of it within these three Years. 1709Steele Tatler No. 50 ⁋7 Lest you should think your self neglected, which I have Reason to believe you would take heinously ill. 1792Cowper Let. 10 Mar., I told you..how heinously I am unprovided with the means of being so. 1826Scott Woodst. iii, They are heinously impoverished. |