adv. [f. as prec.] In an uncomfortable manner; with discomfort or uneasiness, disagreeably; † inconsolably.
c. 1425. St. Mary of Oignies, II. iii. 13, in Anglia, VIII. 158. Þe holy man … made dule vncomfortabely for defoylynge of chirches.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. V., 66 b. This miserable people vncomfortably forsaken & vnnaturally dispised of their owne nacion.
1594. Drayton, Matilda, xxxvi. Thus in my closet being left alone, Vpon the floore vncomfortably lying.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus iii. 6. Water is so necessarie a creature, as nothing can be more dangerously or vncomfortably wanting to the life of man.
1643–5. Milton, Divorce, II. viii. Rather then to live uncomfortably and unhappily both to himself and to his wife,… he might dismisse her.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. (Globe), 112. I wander’d about very uncomfortably.
1796. Mrs. M. Robinson, Angelina, I. 104. I felt most uncomfortably, and would have given anything I possess to have been out of the carriage.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. ix. 96. Long and uncomfortably have I pondered over these opposing calls.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 236/1. The native article becomes uncomfortably sticky in the heat of tropical climates.
