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Meaning of dernly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Secretly.
    obsolete
  2. Sternly, imposingly.
    obsolete
  3. Sorrowfully; grievously.
    obsolete

Examples

“next stroke him should haue slaine, / Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound, / Dernely vnto her called to abstaine […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

derogately derogatively derogatorily derpily derrière descendingly

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