adv. Obs. exc. arch. [f. WOUNDY a.2 + -LY2.] Excessively, extremely, dreadfully.

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1706.  Farquhar, Recruit. Officer, I. i. It smells woundily of Sweat and Brimstone.

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1710.  in Wilkins, Pol. Ballads (1860), II. 90. Sir Peter … pour’d such charges that wounded much deeper, But yet he was woundily beat.

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1749.  Smollett, Gil Blas, X. x. ¶ 28. I … got off in a twinkling; being woundily afraid that he would strip me of my clothes.

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1796.  Hist. Ned Evans, I. 17. I own I’s woundily afraid of dead men.

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1818.  Scott, Rob Roy, xxxviii. The butler observed, ‘it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.’

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1850.  Thackeray, Pendennis, lii. Pen … suffered woundily when called on to pay his share.

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1880.  L. Wingfield, In H. M. Keeping, II. 248. You convicts are woundily crooked cattle.

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