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barbarously

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Etymology

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From barbarous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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barbarously (comparative more barbarously, superlative most barbarously)

  1. In a barbarous manner.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 54:
      However, he comforted himself by giving very particular accounts of how his mistress had been barbarously murdered by banditti; and the good city talked incessantly of the murder, till set right next day by the greater marvel of the escape.

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