overhardly

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adverb

In an overhard way; by means which are too difficult.

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Meanings

adverboverhardly (comparative more overhardly, superlative most overhardly)

comparative more overhardly · superlative most overhardly

  1. obsoleteIn an overhard way; by means which are too difficult.

    Truely they have reason to require of the pacient an application of favourable confidence in them: which must necessarily be in good earnest, and yeelding to apply it self unto imaginations, overhardly to be believed.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Origin

From overhard + -ly.

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