adv. [f. WEARY a. + -LY2.] In a weary manner; with weariness.

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1481.  Caxton, Godfrey, clxxxv. 271. Theyr enemyes wexed wery and weryly and slowly defended them.

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., clxxxvi. (1812), I. 221. And so they went weryly by heapes.

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1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 298. They perceaued a flocke of men of armes comming together right werily.

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1610.  Shaks., Temp., III. i. 32. Mir. You looke wearily.

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18[?].  Moore, ‘Merrily every Bosom,’ ii. Wearily every bosom pineth.

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1859.  Tennyson, Marr. Geraint, 254. [He] down the long street riding wearily, Found every hostel full.

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1866.  Geo. Eliot, Felix Holt, i. A heavy moth floated by, and, when it settled, seemed to fall wearily.

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1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, lix. ‘What is heaven?’ asked Poppæa, wearily.

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