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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Hardly \Hard"ly\, adv. [AS. heardlice. See {Hand}.] 1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. Recovering hardly what he lost before. --Dryden. 2. Unwillingly; grudgingly. The House of Peers gave so hardly thei[?] consent. --Milton. 3. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly. Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. --South. 4. Severely; harshly; roughly. He has in many things been hardly used. --Swift. 5. Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] --Holland. 6. Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
