SORELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorely mean? 

• SORELY (adverb)
  The adverb SORELY has 2 senses:

1. to a great degree

2. in or as if in pain

  Familiarity information: SORELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a great degree

Context example:

we were sorely taxed to keep up with them

Pertainym:

sore (causing misery or pain or distress)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In or as if in pain

Synonyms:

painfully; sorely

Context example:

sorely wounded

Pertainym:

sore (hurting)

 Context examples 

It was a sorely stricken man who lay before us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have been in 180 engagements, and I have, as you see, lost my eye and my arm, and been sorely wounded besides.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, my Irish wits, could they not help me now, when I needed help so sorely?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My back was aching sorely, and I felt extremely tired and hungry.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mr. Wickfield, sorely troubled and distressed, was leaning forward, irresolutely touching the Doctor's arm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I felt sorely urged to weep; but conscious how unseasonable such a manifestation would be, I restrained it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This is your time to get things just so, and you will gain the support from others that you may have felt was sorely missing in your life over the past two years.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I could only judge that all had perished, and my heart smote me sorely that I had not been there to perish with them.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though his dignity was sorely hurt by thus being made a draught animal, he was too wise to rebel.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)