sorrowfully, adv.
(ˈsɒrəʊfʊlɪ)
Forms: (see quots. and prec.).
[ME. sorh-, sorȝfulliche: see prec. and -ly2.]
In a sorrowful manner; to a distressing extent; sadly, pitiably, etc.
| α a 1225 Ancr. R. 400 Uorto beon þer deofles hore, schendfulliche & seoruhfulliche world wiðuten ende. c 1230 Hali Meid. 17 Þe engles..þat seoð hare suster swa sorhfulliche afallet. a 1300 Cursor M. 20896 (Edinb.), Þurȝ saint Petiris orisune Sorfullic þan fel he dune. 1340 Ayenb. 90 Hou ssel ich zygge þet hi doþ guod þanne he ssel by þe more zoruollaker ydamned. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 161, I am sorghfully bestad Of that I se an other glad With hire. |
| β a 1400 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxix. v. 57 Wiþ wepe and wringyng serufoly, To Marie he made his pleynt. |
| γ 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 415 Wel sorwefuliche went Gij In to his chaumber al dreri. c 1350 Will. Palerne 2971 Sorwfuliche sche siȝt last out schold it lett. c 1386 Chaucer Frankl. T. 846 ‘No, no,’ quod he, and sorwfully he siketh. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. viii. (1869) 140 Wundringe him and compleyninge him sorwefulliche. |
| δ c 1375 Cursor M. 15355 (Fairf.), Soroufulli þai come togeder. 1483 Cath. Angl. 349/1 Sorowfully, vbi Sory. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Flebiliter, To singe sorowfully, or as if he wepte. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Envy, sorowfully, against my will. a 1648 Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1649) 471 The matter..he hath sorrowfully lamented. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, The flattering portrait of mankind which..his experience had too sorrowfully corrected. 1839 Dickens Nich. Nick. xii, ‘I don't know,’ said Smike, shaking his head sorrowfully. 1856 Kane Arct. Explor. II. xvi. 175 This was a work..sorrowfully exhausting to the poor fellows. |