What is grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. "He sadly suffers in their grief." Dryden called?
sadly — Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. "He sadly suffers in their grief." Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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