woundily

English

Etymology

From woundy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

woundily (comparative more woundily, superlative most woundily)

1. (obsolete) Excessively; greatly.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 303:

     Taking up the tongs, as if to arrange the wood, but rather perhaps to conceal his own confusion, the butler observed, “it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.”

   • 1842, J[ames] F[enimore] Cooper, chapter XXIII, in The Two Admirals. A Tale of the Sea (Collection of British Authors; XV), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, page 341:

     [']Well, at that moment the Frenchman lifted for'ard on a heavy swell, and let drive at us, with all his forecastle guns, fired as it might be with one priming—'" / "That was bad gunnery," growled Tom Sponge, "as it racks a ship woundily."

   • 1851, George Borrow, chapter I, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume III, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 11:

     Well, I did not like such usage at all, and was woundily frightened, and tried to keep as much out of his way as possible, going anywhere but where I thought I was likely to meet him; and sure enough for several months I contrived to keep out of his way.

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Lieutenant Puddock Receives an Invitation and a Rap over the Knuckles”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 171:

     "Tut, sir, this O'Flaherty has not been three weeks among us," spluttered out the general, who was woundily jealous of the honour of his corps.