haggardly
Appearance
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From haggard (noun) + -ly (adjectival suffix).[1]
Adjective
[edit]haggardly (comparative more haggardly, superlative most haggardly)
- Synonym of haggard.
- 1692, John Quick, “The Roll of Deposed and Apostate Ministers”, in Synodicon in Gallia Reformata: or, The Acts, Decisions, Decrees and Canons of the Seven Last National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France: […], volume II, London: […] J[ohn] Richardson for Thomas Parkhurst […] and for Jonathan Robinson, […], →OCLC, synod XXVI (The Second Synod of Charenton), page 316:
- [H]e is low of Stature, his Hair almoſt white, roving Eyes, high Eagle nos’d, ſhort Neck, ſhrub ſhoulder’d, haggardly, froward, and unſociable in his Diſcourſes.
- 1797, anonymous translator, “A Translation of the Quotations in the Roman Conversations”, in Joseph Wilcocks, Roman Conversations; or A Short Description of the Antiquities of Rome: […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] P. Norman, […] for W. Brown, […], →OCLC, book III, chapter VII, page 13:
- The father was firſt brought forward, diſhevelled, haggardly, and wretched.
- 1870, James Pummill, “Bohemian Fragment”, in Russet Leaves, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, pages 185–186:
- And lo! the great monarch, in shame of the haggardly beldam, / Shuts on the world that he loves his bright-glittering eyelids, / And blushes with crimson to think of the dastardly insult.
- 2014 February 15, Trevor Wilhelm, “Anxiety attack delays justice for man guilty of assault: One of two victims is 81”, in The Windsor Star, Windsor, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A3, column 4:
- Schreiner, a haggardly young man with messy hair and facial scruff who looked like he hadn’t slept, sat hunched over as Topp spoke.
Etymology 2
[edit]From haggard (adjective) + -ly (adverbial suffix).[2]
Adverb
[edit]haggardly (comparative more haggardly, superlative most haggardly)
- In a haggard manner.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 112, line 601:
- How Haggardly ſo e're ſhe looks at home.
References
[edit]- ^ “haggardly, adj. and adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “haggardly, adj. and adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.