wearilyadv.
/ˈwɪərᵻli/, U.S. /ˈwɪrᵻli/ In a weary manner; with weariness.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adverb]
wearily1481
out of breath1565
faintingly1576
languishingly1579
tiredly1659
weariedly1681
pantingly1744
exhaustedly1835
droopingly1852
languorously1858
to a frazzle1865
leadenly1879
jadedly1885
wearifully1888
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxxxv. 271 Theyr enemyes wexed wery and weryly and slowly defended them.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) I. clxxxvi. 221 And so they went weryly by heapes.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 298 They perceaued a flocke of men of armes comming together right werily.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 32 Mir. You looke wearily . View more context for this quotation
18.. T. Moore Merrily every Bosom ii Wearily every bosom pineth.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 14 [He] down the long street riding wearily, Found every hostel full.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 19 A heavy moth floated by, and, when it settled, seemed to fall wearily.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lix. 266 ‘What is heaven?’ asked Poppæa, wearily.
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