Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grievously"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See
{Grief}.]
1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to
bear; offensive; harmful.

The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii.
10.

The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
--Gen. xxi.
11.

2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated;
flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20.

3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or
affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adv. --
{Griev"ous*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

grievously
adv : in a grievous manner; "the resolute but unbroken Germany,
grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able
to lay the firm foundations for military revival"

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