Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner of one who mourns.

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

  • adverb In a mourning manner.

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  • adverb In a mourning manner; grievingly.

Etymologies

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mourning +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality.

    All’s Well That Ends Well 2004

  • He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly.

    Act I. Scene I. All’s Well that Ends Well 1914

  • Carried across the creek and held in bonds for a brief period, he suddenly burst out sobbing, and then went to inspect the ravished nest where the two old birds hovered mourningly about, and where the remaining nestlings seemed dead at first, though they subsequently recovered, so gruesomely had the fascination of their natural enemy affected them!

    A Man and a Woman Stanley Waterloo 1879

  • A picture hung on the walls, an embroidery, floss on white satin, representing a woman leaning mourningly on an urn, and a willow drooping over her.

    Margaret 1851

  • As she spoke, the wind rose and swept mourningly over the large leaves of the chestnut-tree beneath which they stood: the serene stillness of the evening seemed gone; an unquiet and melancholy spirit was loosened abroad, and the chill of the sudden change which is so frequent to our climate, came piercingly upon them.

    Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • As she spoke, the wind rose and swept mourningly over the large leaves of the chestnut-tree beneath which they stood: the serene stillness of the evening seemed gone; an unquiet and melancholy spirit was loosened abroad, and the chill of the sudden change which is so frequent to our climate, came piercingly upon them.

    Godolphin, Volume 6. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality.

    All's Well That Ends Well 1601

  • I think it would be the death of the King's disease”; and Lafeu replies, “The King very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly.”

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • The serf often mourningly complains that he has lost a FATHER and kept a master; "and the lord informs them, in refusing to grant their little requests, that they are no more his children.

    Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

  • I think it would be the death of the King's disease "; and Lafeu replies," The King very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly. "

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

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