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Quotation dates: 1375, 1476-1699
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Hevily, Hevely, adv. Also: hevilie, -yly, -yle; hewilie, -yly, -elie, -ele; hewele, -elly, heweallie; heavily, -illie, heivilie, heav-, heawelie; hevaly, hew-, heavalie; Havily. [ME. hevely, hevelie, early heviliche, OE. hefiᵹlíce.] Heavily, in literal or (usually) transferred senses.(1) 1375 Barb. iii. 235.
It ranyt sa hard and hewyly 1375 Ib. vii. 209.
His fut he set Apon his man weill hevaly a1500 Peblis to Play 197.
So hevelie he hochit about 1581 Reg. Privy C. III. 415.
They … tuke thame all thre … to England, quhair they remanit … hevelie fettirt and bound with fettiris(2) a1500 Henr. Fab. 242 (A).
Hevely scho kest hir browis doun 1513 Doug. ii. ii. 60.
Hevely weyand my … frende thus slane 1533 Boece i. v. 42.
Scottis weying this dispite maist hevily … devisit to be revengit 15.. Clariodus i. 858.
He met ane Squyer musing hevilie 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 2773.
Bot I dreid sair, and heuilie I fear 1558-66 Knox II. 137.
He bare it heavelie in harte, and more heavelie then many wold have wissed a1578 Pitsc. I. 90/17.
Schir Patrick … was heavelie displeasit a1578 Ib. /18.
He was heawilie discontentit thairwith c1615 Chron. Kings 168.
The Queine wes hewalie offendit 1623 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 205.
Quha regratis verie heivilie that thay ar troublit efter this forme 16.. Hist. Kennedy 13.
My lord tuik the same werry heweallie in heid(3) 1476 Thanes of Cawdor 64.
As it is rycht hevyly menit and complenit to us … that [etc.] c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxv. 6.
Off Fortoun I complenit hevely 1531 Bell. Boece I. 96.
Thir princis … lamentit hevely the fekilnes of Arviragus 1565 Knox II. 503.
This manner of handling and usage … were heavily spoken of c1590 Fowler II. 48/25.
Ireneus heuely inuehit against him 1600 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 81.
The brugh of Kinghorne … is now laitle hewelie trublit and hurt(4) c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 8/22.
He … synnis hevely in heresye c1490 Ib. 18/22.
Of the circumstance that garris the syn grow richt hevely 1533 Gau 12/32.
Thay sine hewilie aganis this forsaid first command(5) 1543 Reg. Privy S. III. 5/2.
Alexander Bertoun … is waik and hevelie vexit with seiknes 1579 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 136.
Vnderstanding that our said cousigne is heavalie diseasit be the dollour of ane wound 1582 Edinburgh Testaments XI. 33.
I … being hevelie vexit with ane confirmit stane
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