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ruefully, adv.|ˈruːfʊlɪ|
Forms: 3 reufulike; 4 rew-, reu-, rufullich(e, -ych); 4 rew-, reufully, 4–5 reufulli, 5–7 rufully (6 -lie), 6– ruefully.
[f. rueful a. + -ly2.]
1. In a doleful or dismal manner; sorrowfully, dejectedly, regretfully.
c1220Bestiary 652 [The elephant] remeð reufulike on his wise. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1180 Rewfully þenne I con to reme. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 235 So wole þe fader forȝif folke..Þat reufulliche [v.r. rufulliche] repenten. a1400–50Alexander 3083 With þat reufully [v.r. rewfully] he rase & renkis out he sendis. a1450Le Morte Arth. 3423 To the kynge spake he full styll, Rewffully as he myght than Rowne. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xiv. (Percy Soc.) 54 Of the fall of prynces..He did endyte.., Folowynge his auctoure Bocas rufully. 1581Mulcaster Positions iii. (1887) 14 She would oftimes be brought into a miserable plighte, and looke rufully vpon it. 1657Reeve God's Plea 4 Would it not grieve thee..that they should cry rufully in a sad desolation, which have cryed mightily unto their God? 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 105 It was a piteous sight to behold the late valiant burgomasters..peeping ruefully out of their hiding-places. 1850Thackeray Pendennis i, He..ruefully wrote off refusals to..all his entertainers. 1888F. Hume Madame Midas i. ii, Slivers looked ruefully at the bottle.
†2. In a pitiable or lamentable fashion. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 1825 Noe..praid to godd for þam alsua..Sin þai ware ded sua reufulli, þe saulus he wald haf of merci. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 48 Rosamounde riȝt so reufully bysette, Þe bewte of hir body in badnesse she dispended. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4692 Þou ert reufully fra vs reft. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 71 How rewfully he hinges here, That set you first in ceile! 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 254 Se there the sone of god so rewfully and piteously deformed and arayed for thy saluacion. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. viii. 30 Those pittifull outcries he heard Through all the seas so ruefully resownd. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 199 All the wounded body..rots and consumes most rufully. |