bitterly, adv.
(ˈbɪtəlɪ)
[ME. bit(t)erliche, -like, OE. biterl{iacu}ce, f. biter, bitter a. + -l{iacu}ce, -liche, -ly2.]
In a bitter manner; with bitterness. (See the senses of bitter a.)
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 75 Petrus..eode ut, and weop biterlice [v.r. bytyrlice]. c 1200 Ormin 9726 Forrþi toc Johan wiþþ hemm Full bitterrliȝ to mælenn. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3896 Hem cam wirm-kin among, ðat hem wel bitterlike stong. c 1275 Serving Christ 56 in O.E. Misc. 92 Hwo ysayh euer blisse byterluker ibouht. c 1400 Gamelyn 198 And bigan bitterly his hondes for to wrynge. c 1440 Bone Flor. 1628 A scharpe knyfe..That bytterly wolde byte. 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, i. iv. 7 The Northeast wind Which then grew bitterly against our face. 1611 Bible Ruth i. 20 For the Almightie hath dealt very bitterly with me. 1709 Addison Tatler No. 152 ¶12 Achilles is not more bitterly lamented among us than you. 1847 Grote Greece ii. xlv. (1862) IV. 94 Exiles..bitterly hostile to Athens. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) i. iii. 265 He complained bitterly of the Italians. 1865 Trollope Belton Est. xxii. 263 It came on to rain bitterly,—a cold piercing February rain. |