Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dreadful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Dreadful.

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  • adjective obsolete dreadful
  • adverb obsolete With dread.

Etymologies

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dread +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Yes, my road is dark and dreadly, but I got to travel on down that way

    Elmore James Lyrics 2009

  • And my heart was wondrous proud and wondrous humble, so that I was in the same moment upraised and to feel dreadly unworthy.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And this, I crave strangely that you to understand; for it was so to me that I had a quiet and great respect for that thing; and did feel no hatred; yet was very dreadly in fear of it.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And this, I crave strangely that you to understand; for it was so to me that I had a quiet and great respect for that thing; and did feel no hatred; yet was very dreadly in fear of it.

    The Night Land: Chapter 7 1912

  • And my heart was wondrous proud and wondrous humble, so that I was in the same moment upraised and to feel dreadly unworthy.

    The Night Land: Chapter 12 1912

  • Of these races, some are wholly indifferent to man, some benign to him, and some dreadly hostile.

    A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Of these races, some are wholly indifferent to man, some benign to him, and some dreadly hostile.

    A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • if chiur brudder is dreadly scare of spiders .. and you are of normal mind .. as opposed to freakish dr. giggle that type ..

    www.hardwarezone.com.sg ngeo12 2010

  • "Ha! ha!" laughed a shrill and shrieking voice, which contrasted dreadly with the accents of the soft Tuscan, in which the wild words were strung -- "who comes here with garments dyed in blood?

    Ernest Maltravers — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "Ha! ha!" laughed a shrill and shrieking voice, which contrasted dreadly with the accents of the soft Tuscan, in which the wild words were strung -- "who comes here with garments dyed in blood?

    Ernest Maltravers — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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