dismayfully

adv

dismayfully

adv

Etymology From dismayful + -ly.

1

Rare In dismay.

Nought feared they what he could do or say, / But th'onely feare that was before their vew, / From which like mazed deare dismayfully they flew.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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