Affrightedly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    with fright archaic, poetic

    "The thunder of their rage, and boystrous struggling, make The neighboring Forrests round affrightedly to quake:"

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"The thunder of their rage, and boystrous struggling, make The neighboring Forrests round affrightedly to quake:"

Etymology

From affrighted + -ly. According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

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