severely

comparative more severely · superlative most severely

1. In a severe manner; with severity.

   After the first day they left her severely alone, their plea to their husbands, her uncompromising independence.

   1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15

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   Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart - as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms[.]

   1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 11

   ‘And I hope it teaches that fubsy little boiling-oil Abbot a well-deserved lesson,’ added Murial Jane severely.

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 50

   Regular freight trains between Abergavenny and Merthyr were withdrawn on November 24, 1954, because it was found both practicable and more economical to send this traffic by less severely-graded routes.

   1958 February 28, “Notes and News: Merthyr-Abergavenny Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 138

   It was one out several unannounced home visits the teachers would make to check-in with students who had been severely disengaged while online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

   2021 March 8, Kelsie Smith, “Teachers are making surprise visits to students who are struggling with online learning”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2021

   Synonyms: heavily, roundly