dernly

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adverb

Secretly.

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Meanings

adverbdernly (comparative more dernly, superlative most dernly)

comparative more dernly · superlative most dernly

  1. obsoleteSecretly.
  2. obsoleteSternly, imposingly.

    next stroke him should haue slaine, / Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound, / Dernely vnto her called to abstaine […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. obsoleteSorrowfully; grievously.

Origin

From dern + -ly.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

dernly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dernly

MLA

“dernly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dernly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dernly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dernly.

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