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sorrowfully, adv.|ˈsɒrəʊfʊlɪ|
Forms: (see quots. and prec.).
[ME. sorh-, sorȝfulliche: see prec. and -ly2.]
In a sorrowful manner; to a distressing extent; sadly, pitiably, etc.
αa1225Ancr. R. 400 Uorto beon þer deofles hore, schendfulliche & seoruhfulliche world wiðuten ende. c1230Hali Meid. 17 Þe engles..þat seoð hare suster swa sorhfulliche afallet. a1300Cursor M. 20896 (Edinb.), Þurȝ saint Petiris orisune Sorfullic þan fel he dune. 1340Ayenb. 90 Hou ssel ich zygge þet hi doþ guod þanne he ssel by þe more zoruollaker ydamned. 1390Gower Conf. I. 161, I am sorghfully bestad Of that I se an other glad With hire.
βa1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxix. v. 57 Wiþ wepe and wringyng serufoly, To Marie he made his pleynt.
γ13..Guy Warw. (A.) 415 Wel sorwefuliche went Gij In to his chaumber al dreri. c1350Will. Palerne 2971 Sorwfuliche sche siȝt last out schold it lett. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 846 ‘No, no,’ quod he, and sorwfully he siketh. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. viii. (1869) 140 Wundringe him and compleyninge him sorwefulliche.
δc1375Cursor M. 15355 (Fairf.), Soroufulli þai come togeder. 1483Cath. Angl. 349/1 Sorowfully, vbi Sory. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Flebiliter, To singe sorowfully, or as if he wepte. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Envy, sorowfully, against my will. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1649) 471 The matter..he hath sorrowfully lamented. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, The flattering portrait of mankind which..his experience had too sorrowfully corrected. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xii, ‘I don't know,’ said Smike, shaking his head sorrowfully. 1856Kane Arct. Explor. II. xvi. 175 This was a work..sorrowfully exhausting to the poor fellows. |