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English
Etymology
From overhard + -ly.
Adverb
overhardly (comparative more overhardly, superlative most overhardly)
- (obsolete) In an overhard way; by means which are too difficult.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Truely they have reason to require of the pacient an application of favourable confidence in them: which must necessarily be in good earnest, and yeelding to apply it self unto imaginations, overhardly to be believed.