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sorrowly

adv

Etymology

From sorrow + -ly.

  1. derived from *swergʰ-✻ — “watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”
  2. inherited from *surgō✻
  3. inherited from *sorgu✻
  4. inherited from sorg
  5. inherited from sorwe
  6. suffixed as sorrowly — “sorrow + ly”

Definitions

  1. with sorrow, full of sorrow

    • Time passes sorrowly, rather than slowly; and my thoughts, without being amused, are employed.
    • Christie walked home very sadly and sorrowly; he was in no haste to meet old Treffy's anxious, inquiring eyes.

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