† inˈdignly, adv. Obs.
[f. indign a. + -ly2.]
In an indign manner, with indignity; undeservedly; shamefully, ignominiously. to take indignly: to take as an insult, be indignant at.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 136 His iust demerits, indignly, draw vnto him vniust hatred. 1607 Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 49 They take nothing more indignly, then to see the least indignity offered against it. 1608–11 Bp. Hall Epist. ii. iii. Wks. (1627) 299 A place, I grant, miserably handled by our aduersaries, and..indignly torne out of the councels. 1612 T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 Whence we may gather, how indignely the Lord taketh it. 1659 Gauden Tears Ch. Eng. 53 Behold how I am faln..indignly, and almost desperately. |