dreadly
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English dredli, dredlich, dredlyche, dredeliche, equivalent to dread + -ly.
Adjective
[edit]dreadly (comparative more dreadly, superlative most dreadly)
- (obsolete) dreadful
- 1652, Anonymous, "Christs Kingdome" in Eliza's Babes, Or, The Virgin's Offering, critical edition by L. E. Semler, Associated University Press, 2001, p. 73, lines 16-20, [1]
- At thy approach, black shades did vanish, / And from my heart thou feare didst banish, / And in their room did light appear, / And joy instead of dreadly feare.
- 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, in The Poetical Works of Dr. Goldsmith, London: J. Osborne & T. Griffin, 1785, p. 44, [2]
- […] To distant climes, a dreadly scene, / Where half the convex world intrudes between, / To torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, / Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
- 1860, W. Charles Kent, “Infinitude (from Schiller)”, in The New Monthly Magazine[3], volume 119, London: Chapman & Hall, page 88:
- Lo! 'mid the dreadly solitude a pilgrim form I see / Swift gliding towards me—
- 1982, Roald Dahl, The BFG[4], Penguin UK, published 2007:
- 'The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled.
- 1992, Kāmarūpa Anusandhān Samiti, The Journal of the Assam Research Society, page 12:
- Some practices are considered as essential for the attainment of an enlightened life but are looked upon as dreadly or extremely secret.
- 2006, Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage, chapter 6, in The Fortifications of Paris, McFarland, page 25:
- The Normans made another dreadly appearance in 869, and as they were pagans they had no compunction about attacking, plundering and setting fire to the abbey of Saint-Germain-de-Prés.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- dreadly spectacle
- 1652, Anonymous, "Christs Kingdome" in Eliza's Babes, Or, The Virgin's Offering, critical edition by L. E. Semler, Associated University Press, 2001, p. 73, lines 16-20, [1]
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English dredly, dredliche, equivalent to dread + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]dreadly (comparative more dreadly, superlative most dreadly)
- (obsolete) With dread.
- 1641, Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes And Workes, translated by Josuah Sylvester, London: Robert Young, "The Captains. The Fourth Part of the Third Day of the II. Week," p. 181 [5]
- So shall you see a Cloud-crown'd Hill somtime, / Torn from a greater by the waste of Time; / Dreadly to shake, and boundling down to hop, / And roaring, here it roules tall Cedars up;
- 1752, William Mason, Elfrida: A Dramatic Poem[6], London: John Knapton, published 1757, page 54:
- […] when high in Air / The chos'n Archangel rides, whose right hand weilds / Th'imperial standard of heav'n's providence, / Which dreadly sweeping thro' the vaulted sky / O'ershadows all creation.
- 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in Asmodeus At Large[7], Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 81:
- His vast countenance was unutterably and dreadly calm;
- 1883, Sophocles, “Oedipus the King”, in R. C. Jebb, transl., Sophocles: the Plays and Fragments[8], Cambridge University Press, Part I, p. 103:
- Dreadly, in sooth, dreadly doth the wise augur move me, who approve not, nor am able to deny.
- 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Land God Forgot”, in Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses[9], New York: Barse & Hopkins, page 9:
- The lonely sunsets flare forlorn / Down valleys dreadly desolate;
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 17, in Burmese Days[10]:
- He had turned dreadly pale.
- 1641, Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes And Workes, translated by Josuah Sylvester, London: Robert Young, "The Captains. The Fourth Part of the Third Day of the II. Week," p. 181 [5]
References
[edit]- “dreadly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.