Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HARD'LY
HARD'LY, adv. [See Hard.]
- With difficulty; with great labor. Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden.
- Scarcely; barely; almost not. Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. South.
- Not quite or wholly. The object is so distant we can hardly see it. The veal is hardly done. The writing is hardly completed.
- Grudgingly, as an injury. Shak.
- Severely; unfavorably; as, to think hardly of public measures.
- Rigorously; oppressively. The prisoners were hardly used or treated. Addison. Swift.
- Unwelcomely; harshly. Such information comes very hardly and harshly to a grown man. Locke.
- Coarsely; roughly; not softly. Heaven was her canopy, bare earth her bed; / So hardly lodged. Dryden.
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