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English
Etymology
From difficult + -ly.
Adverb
difficultly (comparative more difficultly, superlative most difficultly)
- (archaic) With difficulty; not easily.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:In fact, we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding, and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit.
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