vengeablyadv.
Now archaic or Obsolete.1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xiv. 204 Miss Matilda, having..vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it.
1. In a revengeful manner; vindictively; cruelly, pitilessly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb]
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unruefullya1400
unruthfullya1400
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ruthlessly1581
unpitifully1587
inhumanely1598
pitilessly1611
uncompassionately1612
incompassionately1639
unpityingly1741
impitiably1835
tearlessly1853
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [adverb]
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vengeably1412
revengefully1579
vengibly1580
revenginglya1616
vindictively1727
avengingly1824
vengefully1830
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 2775 Þis Achille of cruelte..Þe dede cors toke oute of þe taas, And vengably bond it.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 105 Right so it plesed vnto God that he shulde deye vengeably.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 453 He..smote a knyghte soo vengably that he cast hym doun deed to the erthe.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Ki So that they do it charitablye louyngelye, not of malyce, not vengeably, not couetouslye.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 73/1 in Chron. I The Irish enimie..vengeably haue brent a great towne of myne inheritance in Meth, called Ramore.
2. Exceedingly, greatly, very.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly
swithlyc888
micklelyeOE
swith971
hardOE
un-i-fohOE
sevenfoldlOE
unmeet?c1225
innerlyc1330
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too1340
sore1474
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vehemently1483
outrageous1487
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choicec1540
vengeable1542
vengeably?1550
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excellingly1621
main1632
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upsy1650
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mainly1670
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nation1771
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gallowsa1823
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fearfully1835
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hell's own1863
goldarned1866
goddamned1870
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whooping1874
stupidly1878
everlastingly1879
hideously1882
densely1883
storming1883
good and1885
thunderingly1885
crazy1887
tremendous1887
madly1888
goldarn1892
howling1895
murderously1916
rasted1919
goddam1921
bitchingly1923
Christly1923
bitching1929
falling-down1930
lousy1932
appallingly1937
stratospherically1941
Christ almighty1945
effing1945
focking1956
dagnab1961
drop-dead1980
hella1987
totes2006
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 113 But ye are lyke to come vengeably short.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 16 It woold haue made me for my part, az hardy az I am, very veangeably afeard.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 291 Some [priests and monks]..haue bin so vengeably learned.
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