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pestilently, adv.|ˈpɛstɪləntlɪ|
[f. pestilent a. + -ly2.]
In a pestilent manner.
1. Perniciously, noxiously, mischievously.
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man Wks. (1573) 128 Would he spare..to alleage, and to wrest other doctors pestilently, which feareth not for to iugle wyth the holy scripture? 1563–83Foxe A. & M. 56 Some..haue most pestilently abused the authoritie of the holy and auncient fathers. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. ix. §7 The smell nevertheless encreased, and became above all measure pestilently noisome.
2. Annoyingly; intolerably; excessively, outrageously, ‘plaguily’.
1567Trial Treas. in Hazl. Dodsley III. 271 But some⁓time they cumber me pestilently. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 35 The pretence of making People sagacious, and pestilently witty. 1883Standard 16 May 5/8 The most pestilently annoying bird in the world.
So ˈpestilentness, the character of being pestilent.
1727in Bailey vol. II; and in later Dicts. |