sternlyadv.
/ˈstəːnli/, U.S. /ˈstərnli/ In a stern manner (see the senses of the adjective); with sternness of temper, aspect, utterance, etc.; severely, harshly, unbendingly; †fiercely, cruelly; †loudly.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adverb]
grimc893
sternlyc897
bremeOE
bitterlyc1000
etelichec1175
heterlya1225
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
cruentlyc1380
beastlyc1390
unmanlyc1454
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
inhumanly1490
unkindfully?1534
boarishlya1563
savagely1563
tiger-like1576
unhumanly1586
inhumanlike1595
inhumanely1598
immanely1612
savagiously1625
wolvishly1628
beastlilya1631
brutisha1645
truculently1654
tigerously1698
brutally1749
tigerishly1878
society > authority > strictness > [adverb] > severely or sternly
sternlyc897
stitha1000
sterna1175
foulc1275
stithlya1300
steevely1340
austerely?a1400
smartlya1400
unsternlya1400
sore1484
shrewdly1490
dourlya1500
severely1548
roundly1567
severe1599
fiercely1611
piquantly1691
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adverb]
sternlyc897
sharplyc900
stitha1000
hardlyOE
starklyOE
sterna1175
stithlya1300
hardilyc1300
ruggedlya1382
austerely?a1400
smartlya1400
unsternlya1400
acerbly?a1425
brussly1481
sore1484
shrewdly1490
dourlya1500
severely1548
roundly1567
severe1599
strictly1602
fiercely1611
Draconically1641
rugged1661
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adverb]
grimc893
grimly971
bremeOE
reighlyOE
witherc1200
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
fiercelya1375
sturdilyc1374
wickedlya1375
sternly1398
runishlyc1400
witherlyc1400
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
blusterously1548
boarishlya1563
tiger-like1576
sternfully1582
mankindly1606
wolvishly1628
truculently1654
tigerously1698
tigerishly1878
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adverb]
loud971
bremeOE
strongly1340
sternly?a1400
lustilyc1400
great1534
vociferously1637
stentorophonically1693
thunderously1842
full blast1936
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxviii. 197 Ac he him sona ondwyrde, & him suiðe stiernlice stierde.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12596 Þa wes Arðures hired sturneliche [c1300 Otho stranliche] awraððed.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 183 A mous..Stroke forth sternly and stode biforn hem alle.
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame (Pepys) iii. 408 A piler..Of yren wrought full sternely [Bodl. sturnelye, Fairf. sturmely].
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 239 For sternely on me he gan beholde.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xv. xii. (Tollemache MS.) Þese Goothes were sternely [1495 cruelly] killid.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 745 Sterynly thay songene [said of the sailors of a fleet].
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z4 He..Strooke at him so sternely, that he made An open passage through his riuen brest.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) ix. 402 No mountaine Lion tore Two Lambs so sternly.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 406 To whom our Saviour sternly thus reply'd. View more context for this quotation
a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 159 Father, why, why do you gaze so sternly?
1835 N. Hawthorne Dr. Bullivant in Tales & Sketches (1879) 136 We see the mountains rising sternly and with frozen summits up to heaven.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 147 He was sternly told that his defence was not satisfactory.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxv I must be just, and sternly just, to myself, even if God be indulgent.
1911 Q. Rev. July 123 The Mildmay household was sternly Puritan.
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