plangentlyadv.
/ˈplan(d)ʒ(ə)ntli/, U.S. /ˈplændʒən(t)li/ In a way that beats strongly or distressingly on the mind or feelings.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [adverb]
soreOE
sorrily?c1225
drearilya1400
sweamfullyc1420
painfullyc1440
sorelyc1450
badly1580
afflictively1629
afflictingly1657
plangently1900
1900 L. E. Gates in Critic (N.Y.) Mar. 274 All the private, individual grieving which the Romanticists had so plangently or so delicately and picturesquely phrased for the delectation of their age, Carlyle contemns.
1927 R. L. Mégroz Three Sitwells 9 We are driven inwards because the external reality we have created is plangently ugly.
1963 Times 12 June 13/3 The theme of African unity so plangently struck at the Addis Ababa conference.
1992 D. Spoto Blue Angel xviii. 291 The boredom of which she had so plangently complained was now more painful than her weak leg.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1900