adv. Forms: (see quots. and prec.). [ME. sorh-, sorȝfulliche: see prec. and -LY2.] In a sorrowful manner; to a distressing extent; sadly, pitiably, etc.
α. a. 1225. Ancr. R., 400. Uorto beon þer deofles hore, schendfulliche & seoruhfulliche world wiðuten ende.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 17. Þe engles … þat seoð hare suster swa sorhfulliche afallet.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 20896 (Edinb.). Þurȝ saint Petiris orisune Sorfullic þan fel he dune.
1340. Ayenb., 90. Hou ssel ich zygge þet hi doþ guod þanne he ssel by þe more zoruollaker ydamned.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 161. I am sorghfully bestad Of that I se an other glad With hire.
β. a. 1400. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., xxix. v. 57. Wiþ wepe and wringyng serufoly, To Marie he made his pleynt.
γ. 13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 415. Wel sorwefuliche went Gij In to his chaumber al dreri.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 2971. Sorwfuliche sche siȝt last out schold it lett.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Frankl. T., 846. ‘No, no,’ quod he, and sorwfully he siketh.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. viii. (1869), 140. Wundringe him and compleyninge him sorwefulliche.
δ. c. 1375. Cursor M., 15355 (Fairf.). Soroufulli þai come togeder.
1483. Cath. Angl., 349/1. Sorowfully, vbi Sory.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Flebiliter, To singe sorowfully, or as if he wepte.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Envy, sorowfully, against my will.
a. 1648. Ld. Herbert, Hen. VIII. (1649), (1649), 471. The matter … he hath sorrowfully lamented.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, I. i. 3. The flattering portrait of mankind, which his heart had delineated in early youth, his experience had too sorrowfully corrected.
1839. Dickens, Nickleby, xii. ‘I don’t know,’ said Smike, shaking his head sorrowfully.
1856. Kane, Arct. Explor., II. xvi. 175. This was a work … sorrowfully exhausting to the poor fellows.
