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sourly, adv.|ˈsaʊəlɪ|
Also 6–8 sowerly, 6–7 sowr(e)ly(e, 6 sour(e)lie, 7 sourely.
[f. sour a. Cf. MDu. suur-, zuurlike, MSw. surliga.]
1. In a sour, peevish, or disagreeable manner:
a. With intransitive verbs, esp. to look.
1533Frith Judgem. Tracy (1829) 249 Why look you so sourly, good brethren? 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xxii. 22 Yf he speake sowerly, feare not. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 660 Who seemed to grind his teeth and to looke sowrely upon him. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. iii. 13 Though I shew'd sowerly to him. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 196 This truth looks very sourly and frowningly upon all such as deny the godhead of Christ. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. ii. 303 To this reply'd the stern Athenian Prince, And sow'rly smild. 1726Pope Odyss. xx. 183 Two dogs of chase..Behind him sourly stalk'd. 1835Lytton Rienzi v. vii, The Cardinal smiled sourly. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. III. 279 ‘At eighteen I was not a fool,’ replied Mrs. Ferrers sourly.
b. With transitive verbs.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. v. 42 Waye not sowrelye nor extremely whiche is more in faulte. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus T ij, I..being sourelie rebuked for fawning on thee, am yet as fruitfull in thy loue. 1642H. More Song of Soul iv. iv, It did much displease, That any should so sourely him outface. 1697Dryden æneid ix. 52 They keep the strict command, And sourly wait in arms the hostile band. 1847Emerson Poems, Threnody Wks. (Bohn) I. 491 O richest fortune sourly crossed! Born for the future, to the future lost!
c. With adjectives.
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xviii, Her face grew momently..more sourly expressive of disappointment. 1884Browning Ferishtah Poet. Wks. 1907 XVI. 80 The sourly-Sage, for whom life's best was death.
2. With great dislike or distaste.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 39 b, All the Constables promises were..swetely spoken, and sowerly performed. 1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune ii. Ep. Ded. 161 What contention haue children with their bookes and learning, most sowerly sowing that, which they shall reape most sweetlie.
3. With sourness or acidity.
1574T. Hill Bees xiii, [One] not breathing sourly or of a stinking breath. 1881Standard 29 Oct. 1/2 I'd try their sourness, if I knew Where those gooseberries sourly grew. |