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Webster 1913 Edition
Heavily
1.
In a heavy manner; with great weight;
as, to bear
heavily
on a thing; to be heavily
loaded.Heavily
interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century.
2.
As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them
heavily
. Ex. xiv. 25.
Why looks your grace so
heavily
to-day? Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Heavily
HEAV'ILY
,adv.
1.
With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively. When calamities fall heavily on the christian, he finds consolation in Christ.2.
Sorrowfully; with grief. I came hither to transport the tidings,
Which I have heavily borne.
3.
With an air of sorrow or dejection. Why looks your Grace so heavily to day?
4.
With weight; oppressively. Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.5.
Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily. So they drove them heavily. Ex.14.