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painfully, adv.|ˈpeɪnfʊlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a painful manner.
1. In a way that causes or is accompanied by pain or suffering; distressingly; with pain.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 857 Men were so sore handled, and so painefully pangued, that [etc.]. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 10 Being painfully and pipeing hot, arriv'd at this exalted mansion. 1795Southey Soldier's Wife 2 Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart, Travelling painfully over the rugged road. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxii. 312 Ambleside..looked painfully modern now.
2. In a way that gives trouble; with difficulty. Obs. or arch.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 85 Yf it were easily expulsed, or peynfully. 1573–80Baret Alv. P 29 Painefully, hardly, laboriosè. 1835J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. iii. 32 A depth of meaning..hardly and painfully to be understood. 1842Alison Hist. Europe (1849–50) X. lxv. §55. 51 Macdonald was thus painfully maintaining his ground in upper Catalonia.
3. With great pains, painstakingly, laboriously, with care and effort. Obs. or arch.
1555Bradford Let. in Coverdale Lett. Martyrs (1564) 270 Lyuyng therein not so purely, louynglye, and painfully as I shoulde haue done. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 316 Painefully and expensfully studious of the common good. 1709Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 200 He..painfully collected the works of Geffrey Chawcer. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. ii. iv. (1864) I. 270 That no private man could hope to arrive at a sounder understanding..than had been painfully attained by so many holy bishops.
4. fig. Excessively, to an alarming degree.
1900[see effortful a.]. 1909A. Lancastre Saldanha Recoll. xi. 151 Sir Robert Peel was painfully shy with strangers. 1941N. Coward Australia Visited i. 2 An R.A.F. plane which seemed to me almost painfully small. 1961Flying (N.Y.) Feb. 33/1 At this point it should be painfully obvious that cities, being ‘soft’, and the people within them are ideally suited to destruction by nuclear weapons. |