HARDLY

adv.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden.

2.
adv.

Unwillingly; grudgingly. The House of Peers gave so hardly theiMilton.

3.
adv.

Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly. Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. South.

4.
adv.

Severely; harshly; roughly. He has in many things been hardly used. Swift.

5.
adv.

Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] Holland.

6.
adv.

Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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