Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GRIEV'OUS-LY
GRIEV'OUS-LY, adv.
With pain; painfully; with great gin or distress; as, to be grievously afflicted. With discontent, ill will or grief. Knolles. Calamitously; miserably; greatly; with great uneasiness, distress or grief. Atrociously; as, to sin or offend grievously.
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