BARBAROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barbarously mean? 

• BARBAROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb BARBAROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a barbarous manner

  Familiarity information: BARBAROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARBAROUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a barbarous manner

Context example:

they were barbarously murdered

Pertainym:

barbarous ((of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)

 Context examples 

The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Oh, barbarously insolent!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Two inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that Elizabeth was the real cause of the mischief; and the other that she herself had been barbarously misused by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)