dernly
advEtymology From dern + -ly.
1
Obsolete Secretly.
2
Obsolete Sternly, imposingly.
- next stroke him should haue slaine, / Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound, / Dernely vnto her called to abstaine […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
3
Obsolete Sorrowfully; grievously.