Unsadly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Not sadly.

    "A glove was suspended / Spacious and wondrous, in art-fetters fastened, / Which was fashioned entirely by touch of the craftman / From the dragon’s skin by the devil’s devices: / He down in its depths would do me unsadly / One among many, deed-doer raging, / Though sinless he saw me; not so could it happen / When I in my anger upright did stand."

Example

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"A glove was suspended / Spacious and wondrous, in art-fetters fastened, / Which was fashioned entirely by touch of the craftman / From the dragon’s skin by the devil’s devices: / He down in its depths would do me unsadly / One among many, deed-doer raging, / Though sinless he saw me; not so could it happen / When I in my anger upright did stand."

Etymology

From un- + sadly.

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