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English
Etymology
From mournful + -ly.
Adverb
mournfully (comparative more mournfully, superlative most mournfully)
- In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
- 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid
- "Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."
1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 10, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, , published 1930, →OCLC:The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.
1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 104:So she dared not tell anyone how she felt, but went about mournfully, with a heavy heart.
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