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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, chapter III, in Romance and Reality. In Three Volumes.">…], 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.
1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:I was reminded of this by an entry in the Westleton Churchwarden's Account for 1731-2 which records the sum of one shilling and sixpence having been given to 'fifteen seamen in company, which had been taken by ye pyrates and very barbarously used'.
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