GRIEVOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grievously mean? 

• GRIEVOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb GRIEVOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a grievous manner

  Familiarity information: GRIEVOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIEVOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a grievous manner

Context example:

the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival

Pertainym:

grievous (causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm)

 Context examples 

I reminded her that a doctor's confidence was sacred, but that you were grievously anxious about her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There remain three persons who have been grievously stricken by some conscious or unconscious human agency. That is firm ground.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But surely, comrades, some one who is grievously hurt hath passed along this road before us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cut of her teeth in his neck still hurt, but his feelings were hurt more grievously, and he sat down and weakly whimpered.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And she evidently thought so, for she wept most grievously.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was not one who was not wounded in four or five places, while some were wounded grievously.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Maria, with only Mr. Rushworth to attend to her, and doomed to the repeated details of his day's sport, good or bad, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his neighbours, his doubts of their qualifications, and his zeal after poachers, subjects which will not find their way to female feelings without some talent on one side or some attachment on the other, had missed Mr. Crawford grievously; and Julia, unengaged and unemployed, felt all the right of missing him much more.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I guessed his meaning, and my good fortune gave me so much presence of mind, that I resolved not to struggle in the least as he held me in the air above sixty feet from the ground, although he grievously pinched my sides, for fear I should slip through his fingers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Howsoever that may be, you are grievously to be pitied; in which opinion I am not only joined by Mrs. Collins, but likewise by Lady Catherine and her daughter, to whom I have related the affair.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)