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miserably, adv.|ˈmɪzərəblɪ|
[f. miserable + -ly2.]
1. In a miserable manner; in such a manner or to such an extent as to excite pity; in misery; in extreme unhappiness or discomfort.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 5 He herde that his moder scholde die miserably. c1440Alphabet of Tales 244 And þan come tythandis at þe pope was myserablie dead. a1500Bernard. de cura rei fam. (E.E.T.S.) 1 As he his howsalde sulde contene, And his famele miserabilly sustene. 1535Coverdale Micah ii. 10 Because off their Idolatry they are corrupte, and shall myserably perish. 1657Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 216 The effigies..miserably defaced when Oxon was besieged. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. iv, In the mean Time, the whole Country lies miserably waste. 1753Scots Mag. Feb. 100/1 Five were miserably scorched. 1782Cowper Lett. 18 Nov., We promise, however, that none shall touch it but such as are miserably poor. 1822Shelley tr. Calderon's Mag. Prodig. ii. 44 The melancholy form Of a great ship..Drives miserably! 1881Russell Haigs vii. 154 This unnatural strife..which had ended in her husband being thus miserably incarcerated.
b. Pitiably, deplorably, despicably.
1597Pilgrim. Parnass. ii. (1886) 6, I want a worde miserablely! I must looke for another worde in my dictionarie. 1741Middleton Cicero II. x. 414 Bassus was miserably unwilling to deliver up his Legion.
2. So as to cause misery or distress; calamitously, disastrously. ? Obs.
1538Starkey England 22 Some put in pryson and myserably handlyd. 1584D. Powel Lloyd's Cambria 100 [They] set the cathedrall on fire, and..spoiled and burnt the towne miserablie. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 300 The Jnglis men of weir..afflicted vs sair, and misaribilie. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 59 [They] miserably and without resistance wasted the countrey about Emissa. 1728Morgan Algiers II. ii. 227 He continued his Excursions, miserably ravaging all the Italian Coasts.
b. So as to make one feel wretched.
1806J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life vi. xxxviii, On the road—one of the wheels of your carriage beginning to creak miserably.
†3. In a miserly fashion, covetously. Obs.—0
1611Cotgr., Sordidement,..basely, miserably, for (deere) lucres sake. 1736Ainsworth, Miserably (covetously), Avarè, illiberaliter.
4. Meanly, wretchedly, badly.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xix. §4 (1590) 187 b, The same loue makes me ashamed to bring you to a place, where you shalbe so..miserably entertained. 1840Macaulay Ess., Ld. Clive (1843) III. 113 The younger clerks were so miserably paid.
5. Used as a pejorative intensive (cf. wretchedly).
1715Pope Iliad I. 180 Sanson's map..is miserably defective both in Omissions and false Placings. 1810J. Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. lxxviii. 415 The miserably deficient improvement of a life of which the best part is now gone. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 392 She had a miserably bad sore throat. |