Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Secretly.
  • Solitarily; hence, sadly; mournfully.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Secretly; grievously; mournfully.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb obsolete Secretly.
  • adverb obsolete Sternly, imposingly.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From dern +‎ -ly.

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  • Sadly, the adverb dernly is used ever so very infrequently.

    dearnly

    November 15, 2012

  • Wonderful.

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    November 17, 2012