dernly
adverb
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adv
Etymology: From dern + -ly.
- Secretly.
- Sternly, imposingly.
“next stroke him should haue slaine, / Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound, / Dernely vnto her called to abstaine […]”
- Sorrowfully; grievously.