overhardly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]overhardly (comparative more overhardly, superlative most overhardly)
- (obsolete) In an overhard way; by means which are too difficult.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Truely they have reason to require of the pacient an application of favourable confidence in them: which must necessarily be in good earnest, and yeelding to apply it self unto imaginations, overhardly to be believed.