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Meaning of graviter | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2
[ˈɡra.wɪ.tɛr]

Definitions

  1. heavily, weightily, ponderously
  2. strongly, violently
  3. severely, harshly
    figuratively

Examples

“SĪMŌ: Omnēs qui amant graviter sibi darī uxōrem ferunt.”

SIMO: All [young men] who have love affairs — they can hardly endure [it] when they’re given a wife. (Speaking with comical irony, Simo knows that his son loves the woman from Andros, and yet Simo has arranged for him to marry another woman instead.)

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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