severely

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Etymology

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From severe +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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severely (comparative more severely, superlative most severely)

  1. In a severe manner.
    • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15:
      After the first day they left her severely alone, their plea to their husbands, her uncompromising independence.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 11:
      Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart - as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms[.]

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