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Definition of Heinously
1. Adverb. In a terribly evil manner. "The child was heinously murdered"
Definition of Heinously
1. Adverb. In a heinous manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heinously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heinously
Literary usage of Heinously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Criminal Trials by Peleg Whitman Chandler (1844)
"... but upon positive grounds, I now and hereby formally accuse Colonel Henley of
behavior heinously criminal as an officer, and unbecoming a man; ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1883)
"more heinously when, against the clear dictate of conscience, and the direct
command of God, he tempted Israel into the licentious idolatries of Midian, ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1865)
"See how heinously he took David's adultery at his hands, more than he would at
the hands ... And God takes it so too at our hands 'try heinously : Isa. i. ..."
4. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"It is a wilful slander that you could not but heinously transgress under her.
I dare take it upon my soul that all your transgression, which you should ..."
5. Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. by Thomas Smyth (1910)
"... as it is to bring them up without any knowledge of God or of his law, or of
any moral duty; that a parent who does so is as truly, if not as heinously, ..."
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