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Webster 1913 Edition

Dernly

Dern′ly

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adv.

Secretly; grievously; mournfully.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dernly

DERNLY

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adv.

Sadly; mournfully.

Definition 2024

dernly

dernly

English

Adverb

dernly ‎(comparative more dernly, superlative most dernly)

(obsolete) Secretly.
(obsolete) Sternly, imposingly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:
  next stroke him should haue slaine, / Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound, / Dernely vnto her called to abstaine [...].