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Definition of Dreadly
1. a. Dreadful.
Definition of Dreadly
1. Adjective. (obsolete) dreadful ¹
2. Adverb. (obsolete) With dread. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dreadly
1. in a fearful manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreadly
Literary usage of Dreadly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the American Field Service in France, ʻFriends of France", 1914-1917 by James William Davenport Seymour (1920)
""VALLEYS dreadly DESOLATE" THE road at this point bends to the east before again
turning northward, and enters the long valley ..."
2. The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-one Plays from the Drama of Greece by Brander Matthews (1916)
"... to put from him the doom spoken at Earth's entrai shrine: but that doom ever
lives, ever Bita around him. dreadly, in sooth, dreadly doth the wise ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, Philip Stanhope Worsley (1862)
"... who with fond intent Thought dreadly to avenge Antinous slain, But now far
other was to find the event, Himself not fated to return again, ..."
4. The Monthly Review (1831)
"The thoughts that, like a lava-stream, Consume the mighty to the grave :— Boy !
rouse thee from the dreadly dream, Nor die Ambition's worn-out slave. ..."
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