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Definition of Direly
1. adv. In a dire manner.
Definition of Direly
1. Adverb. In a dire manner ¹
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Definition of Direly
1. in a dire manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direly
Literary usage of Direly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"The MSS., however, often pronounce against their correctness. Herakleitos 6 has
direly, ... Diogen. a direly. ..."
2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, Philip Stanhope Worsley (1862)
"direly the heads crashed, and a hideous roar Sounded for ever, and still the
bubbling earth ran gore. ..."
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