adv. Obs. [OE. earfoðlíce: see ARVETH and -LY2.] With difficulty or trouble, hardly.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. xix. 23. Earfoðlíce se weleʓa gæð on Godes rice.

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c. 1160.  Hatton G., ibid., Ærfedlice.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 131. Ðe wunderliche … her-one arueðliche wunede.

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c. 1230.  Ancr. R., 328. Hu eruedliche he ariseð þet under wune of sunne haueð ileien longe.

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