Blackly

adv. [f. BLACK a. + -LY².] In a black, gloomy or frowning manner; darkly, gloomily, dismally.

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1563. Mirr. Mag. (Induct.), lvi. With visage grym, sterne lookes and blackeley hewed.

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1639. Fuller, Holy War, V. xi. (1840), 262. This project so blackly blasted with perjury.

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a. 1824. Campbell, Dead Eagle, 38. His shape distinct Was blackly shadow’d on the sunny ground.

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1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. xxx. The pool blackly shivering.

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