Obs. Forms: α. 1 wraðlice, 3 wraðliche, Orm. wraþeliȝ, 4 wrathli, -ly, 5 Sc. wraithly. β. 3 wroð-, wroðeliche, 4 wroþeliche, -lich, wroþlich, wroþli, -ly, 4–5 wroþely, wrothely, 5 wroothly. [OE. wráðlíce (= MLG. wretliken, MDu. wreedelick, Du. -lijk), f. wráð WROTH a. + -LY2.]
1. In a wrathful, bitter or cruel manner; wrathfully, angrily, furiously.
α. Beowulf, 3062. Þa sio fæhð ʓewearð ʓewrecen wraðlice.
c. 1200. Ormin, 15832. Ȝiff þatt Crist swa wraþeliȝ Draf menn … Ut off þatt temmple.
c. 1205. Lay., 7379. Cezar isch þis writ, and he hit wraðliche bi-heold.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3958. Quen he of his cuming herd Ful wrathli gains him he ferd.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter i. 3. It is wiþ swa mykil delaiynge & swa wrathly, þat it is noght worth þat þai doe.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxix. (Placidas), 303. Forton … turnyt hyr bak one hym wrathly.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IV. 237. Wallace,… Sumpart amowet, wraithly till it … went.
c. 1470. Golagros & Gaw., 162. Wondirly wraithly he wroght, and all as of were.
β. c. 1205. Lay., 485. Þe king nom þat writ on hond & he hit wroðliche bi-heold.
c. 1330. Amis & Amil., 1166. The leuedi loked opon him tho Wrothlich.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 132. Þay wakened wel þe wroþeloker, for wroþely he cleped.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. V. 68. Wroþliche he wrong his fust.
1421. Hoccleve, Min. Poems, 151. He wroothly wente out of hir conpaignie.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.), 9. Oure Lord … shoke thre speres wrothly.
2. Badly; ill. rare.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 193. Man hit noteð wroðeliche, þe mid ȝepshipe bicherð þis emcristen.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 33 (Cott. MS.). Ȝif þu art unwurðliche & wraðeliche ilatet.
3. Sadly; sorrowfully. rare–1.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. prose i. (1868), 7. Þus þis compaygnie of muses i-blamed casten wroþely [L. mæstior] þe chere adounward to þe erþþe.
