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English
Etymology
From barbarous + -ly.
Adverb
barbarously (comparative more barbarously, superlative most barbarously)
- In a barbarous manner.
1831, L E 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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