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inhumanly, adv.|ɪnˈhjuːmənlɪ| Forms: see inhuman. [f. inhuman + -ly2.] In an inhuman manner; barbarously, cruelly.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon i. 54 The false enterpryse of Charlemayne..shalle this daye make me Inhumaynly for to deye. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 32 Having so ingratefully, nay rather inhumanely dealt with me. 1638Cowley Love's Riddle v. i, I asked her who had used her so inhumanely: She answered, Turkish Pyrates. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 677 What are these..who thus deal Death Inhumanly to men? 1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1878/2 That Horrid and Inhumanly-bloody-designed Villany. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxx. (1869) II. 156 Many thousand Christians were inhumanly massacred. 1863Dublin Even. Mail 4 Dec. 4/3 To see..the negro race inhumanly treated. |