adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an agonizing manner; with painful or desperate struggles.
c. 1841. Kingsley, Lett. & Mem., I. 52. Struggles … which made him feel more agonizingly weak than ever.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Painters, V. VI. vii. § 7. They … fail egregiously;—ridiculously;—it may be, agonizingly.
