Bitingly

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a biting manner; bitterly, sorely; caustically, acridly; keenly, penetratingly.

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c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., II. vii. 59. Þat oþer man answered[e] aȝein ful bityngly.

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1562. Jewel, Apol. Ch. Eng., IV. vi. (1845), 74. To utter these things more bitterly, and bitingly, than it becometh divines to do.

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1673. Hickeringill, Greg. F. Greyb., 302. With teeth bitingly set. Ibid. (1705), Priest-cr., IV. (1721), 211. To be bitingly wise as Serpents.

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1873. Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, xxx. 427. Every wind … is bitingly cold.

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