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Sadly
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
1. Wearily; heavily; firmly. [Obs.] In go the spears full sadly in arest. Chaucer.
2. Seriously; soberly; gravely. [Obs.] To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton.
3. Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. "He sadly suffers in their grief." Dryden.