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Webster 1913 Edition
Weakly
Weak′ly
,adv.
In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
Weak′ly
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Weaklier
; sup
erl.
Weakliest
.] Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble;
as, a
weakly
woman; a man of a weakly
constitution.Webster 1828 Edition
Weakly
WEAKLY
,adv.
1.
Feebly; with little physical strength; faintly; not forcible; as a fortress weakly defended.2.
With want of efficacy.Was plighted faith so weakly seald above?
3.
With feebleness of mind or intellect; indiscretely; injuriously.Beneath pretended justice weakly fall.
4.
Timorously; with little courage or fortitude.WEAKLY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
weakly
weakly
English
Adjective
weakly (comparative weaklier, superlative weakliest)
- Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
- 1885, I lay in weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18
- 1889, I'd always been but weakly, / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- "Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.
Adverb
weakly (comparative more weakly, superlative most weakly)