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hideously, adv.|ˈhɪdɪəslɪ|
Forms: see prec.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a hideous manner: see the adj. The sense ranges from ‘horribly, dreadfully, fearfully’, in earlier use, to ‘revoltingly’ in later. It is sometimes misused as an intensive, intended to be stronger than ‘awfully, terribly, dreadfully’, when these have become too familiar.
a1300Cursor M. 16767 + 88 Ful hidously þen con it [þe erthe] quake. 1340Ayenb. 2 Þe ilke þet zuereþ hidousliche be god oþer by his halȝen. 1382Wyclif Num. xxii. 27 The asse..felle down vndir the feet of the sitter, the which more hydowsly wrooth, bette with a staf the sides of hir. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 843 The brighte swerdes wente to and fro So hidously. c1400Destr. Troy 7522 Paris..Hurt hym so hidously, þat he his horse leuyt. c1440Partonope 2394 Alle aboute the lystes wyde He hym chased so hidously. 1591Spenser Tears of Muses 553 Heaps of huge words uphoorded hideously, With horrid sound though having little sence. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 15 Both men and women hidiously cut and slash their flesh in sundry formes. 1650Fuller Pisgah i. vi. 15 The word desert sounds hideously to English eares. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 142 Those that are wounded show vast fury, roar hideously. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. ix. 173 There is a calmness about your life which makes me hideously envious. |