dreadly

From Middle English dredli, dredlich, dredlyche, dredeliche, equivalent to dread +‎ -ly.

dreadly (comparative more dreadly, superlative most dreadly)

1. (obsolete) dreadful
   • 1652, Anonymous, "Christs Kingdome" in Eliza's Babes, Or, The Virgin's Offering, critical edition by L. E. Semler, Associated University Press, 2001, p. 73, lines 16-20,

     At thy approach, black shades did vanish, / And from my heart thou feare didst banish, / And in their room did light appear, / And joy instead of dreadly feare.

   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, in The Poetical Works of Dr. Goldsmith, London: J. Osborne & T. Griffin, 1785, p. 44,

     To distant climes, a dreadly scene, / Where half the convex world intrudes between, / To torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, / Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.

   • 1860, W. Charles Kent, “Infinitude (from Schiller)”, in The New Monthly Magazine‎, volume 119, London: Chapman & Hall, page 88:

     Lo! 'mid the dreadly solitude a pilgrim form I see / Swift gliding towards me—

   • 1982, Roald Dahl, The BFG‎, Penguin UK, published 2007:

     'The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled.

   • 1992, Kāmarūpa Anusandhān Samiti, The Journal of the Assam Research Society, page 12:

     Some practices are considered as essential for the attainment of an enlightened life but are looked upon as dreadly or extremely secret.

   • 2006, Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage, chapter 6, in The Fortifications of Paris, McFarland, page 25:

     The Normans made another dreadly appearance in 869, and as they were pagans they had no compunction about attacking, plundering and setting fire to the abbey of Saint-Germain-de-Prés.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     dreadly spectacle

From Middle English dredly, dredliche, equivalent to dread +‎ -ly.

dreadly (comparative more dreadly, superlative most dreadly)

1. (obsolete) With dread.
   • 1641, Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes And Workes, translated by Josuah Sylvester, London: Robert Young, "The Captains. The Fourth Part of the Third Day of the II. Week," p. 181

     So shall you see a Cloud-crown'd Hill somtime, / Torn from a greater by the waste of Time; / Dreadly to shake, and boundling down to hop, / And roaring, here it roules tall Cedars up;

   • 1752, William Mason, Elfrida: A Dramatic Poem‎, London: John Knapton, published 1757, page 54:

     […] when high in Air / The chos'n Archangel rides, whose right hand weilds / Th'imperial standard of heav'n's providence, / Which dreadly sweeping thro' the vaulted sky / O'ershadows all creation.

   • 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in Asmodeus At Large‎, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 81:

     His vast countenance was unutterably and dreadly calm;

   • 1883, Sophocles, “Oedipus the King”, in R. C. Jebb, transl., Sophocles: the Plays and Fragments‎, Cambridge University Press, Part I, p. 103:

     Dreadly, in sooth, dreadly doth the wise augur move me, who approve not, nor am able to deny.

   • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Land God Forgot”, in Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses‎, New York: Barse & Hopkins, page 9:

     The lonely sunsets flare forlorn / Down valleys dreadly desolate;

   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 17, in Burmese Days‎:

     He had turned dreadly pale.

• “dreadly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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