† murrainlyadv.
Obsolete.
As an intensifier: exceedingly, confoundedly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad
sorea1300
grievously1340
terrible1490
beastly?1518
shrewdlyc1533
arrantly?1548
murrainly?1548
abominablea1550
pestilence1567
pestilently1567
cursedly1570
pestiferously1570
murrain1575
plaguey1584
plaguilya1586
grievous1598
scandalously1602
horridly1603
terribly1604
monstrously1611
hellish1614
dreadfullya1616
horrid1615
pestilenta1616
infernally1638
preposterously1661
woeful1684
confoundedly1694
confounded1709
glaringly1709
cursed1719
flagrantly1756
weary1790
disgustingly1804
filthy1827
blamed1833
peskily1833
pesky1833
blame1843
blasted1854
wickedly1858
blatantly1878
shamelessly1885
disgracefully1893
ruddy1913
bastarda1935
pissing1951
sodding1954
pissingly1971
?1548 L. Shepherd John Bon (1808) 6 Ye are morenly well learned I se by your recknynge That ye wyll not forget such an eluyshe thynge.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. ii. sig. Ciiv And yead bene here, cham sure yould murrenly [misprinted murreuly] ha wondred.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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