barbarously en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English barbarous Middle English -ly English -ly English barbarously From barbarous + -ly.
Meanings
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In a barbarous manner.
However, he comforted himself by giving very particular accounts of how his mistress had been barbarously murdered by banditti; and the good city talked incessantly of the murder, till set right next day by the greater marvel of the escape.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:I was reminded of this by an entry in the Westleton Churchwarden's Account for 1731-2 which records the sum of one shilling and sixpence having been given to 'fifteen seamen in company, which had been taken by ye pyrates and very barbarously used'.
1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most barbarously | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more barbarously | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
hi बर्बरतापूर्वक (Translations) · pl barbarzyńsko (Translations)