execratively en · ADV
Etymology
From execrative + -ly.
Meanings
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In an execrative manner.
But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowing formulas’ as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest[.]
1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book I (September), page 5:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more execratively | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most execratively | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |