dreadly – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of dreadly

Adjective: dreadly

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore dreadly
Superlativemost dreadly

Sample Sentences

  • 1652, Anonymous, "Christs Kingdome" in Eliza's Babes, Or, The Virgin's Offering, critical edition by L. E. Semler, Associated University Press, 2001, p. 73, lines 16-20, https://books.google.ca/books?id=C2_I9s7b3NwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • At thy approach, black shades did vanish, / And from my heart thou feare didst banish, / And in their room did light appear, / And joy instead of dreadly feare.
  • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, in The Poetical Works of Dr. Goldsmith, London: J. Osborne & T. Griffin, 1785, p. 44, https://books.google.ca/books?id=aA0UAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • […] To distant climes, a dreadly scene, / Where half the convex world intrudes between, / To torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, / Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
  • Lo! 'mid the dreadly solitude a pilgrim form I see / Swift gliding towards me— [1860, W. Charles Kent, “Infinitude (from Schiller)”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 119, London: Chapman & Hall, page 88:]
  • 'The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled. [1982, Roald Dahl, The BFG, Penguin UK, published 2007:]
  • Some practices are considered as essential for the attainment of an enlightened life but are looked upon as dreadly or extremely secret. [1992, Kāmarūpa Anusandhān Samiti, The Journal of the Assam Research Society, page 12:]
  • The Normans made another dreadly appearance in 869, and as they were pagans they had no compunction about attacking, plundering and setting fire to the abbey of Saint-Germain-de-Prés. [2006, Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage, chapter 6, in The Fortifications of Paris, McFarland, page 25:]
  • dreadly spectacle [1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English dredli, dredlich, dredlyche, dredeliche, equivalent to dread + -ly.