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bitterly, adv.|ˈbɪtəlɪ| [ME. bit(t)erliche, -like, OE. biterlíce, f. biter, bitter a. + -líce, -liche, -ly2.] In a bitter manner; with bitterness. (See the senses of bitter a.)
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 75 Petrus..eode ut, and weop biterlice [v.r. bytyrlice]. c1200Ormin 9726 Forrþi toc Johan wiþþ hemm Full bitterrliȝ to mælenn. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3896 Hem cam wirm-kin among, ðat hem wel bitterlike stong. c1275Serving Christ 56 in O.E. Misc. 92 Hwo ysayh euer blisse byterluker ibouht. c1400Gamelyn 198 And bigan bitterly his hondes for to wrynge. c1440Bone Flor. 1628 A scharpe knyfe..That bytterly wolde byte. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iv. 7 The Northeast wind Which then grew bitterly against our face. 1611Bible Ruth i. 20 For the Almightie hath dealt very bitterly with me. 1709Addison Tatler No. 152 ⁋12 Achilles is not more bitterly lamented among us than you. 1847Grote Greece ii. xlv. (1862) IV. 94 Exiles..bitterly hostile to Athens. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) i. iii. 265 He complained bitterly of the Italians. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xxii. 263 It came on to rain bitterly,—a cold piercing February rain. |