释义 |
woundily, adv. Obs. exc. arch.|ˈwaʊndɪlɪ| [f. woundy a.2 + -ly2.] Excessively, extremely, dreadfully.
1706Farquhar Recruit. Officer i. i, It smells woundily of Sweat and Brimstone. 1710in Wilkins Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 90 Sir Peter..pour'd such charges that wounded much deeper, But yet he was woundily beat. 1749Smollett Gil Blas x. x. ⁋28, I..got off in a twinkling; being woundily afraid that he would strip me of my clothes. 1796Hist. Ned Evans I. 17, I own I's woundily afraid of dead men. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxviii, The butler observed, ‘it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.’ 1850Thackeray Pendennis lii, Pen..suffered woundily when called on to pay his share. 1880L. Wingfield In H.M. Keeping II. 248 You convicts are woundily crooked cattle. |