adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a comfortless manner; without comfort.

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1549.  J. Olde, Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. 14. To susteyne those women that are comfortlesly lefte destitute.

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c. 1825.  Beddoes, Poems, Sec. Bro., II. i. My body and my mind are ill agreed And comfortlessly strange.

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1852.  W. Collins, Basil, I. xii. 92. The meal was hurried over comfortlessly and silently.

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