English

Adverb

overhardly ‎(comparative more overhardly, superlative most overhardly)

1. (obsolete) In an overhard way; by means which are too difficult.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.37:

     Truely they have reason to require of the pacient an application of favourable confidence in them: which must necessarily be in good earnest, and yeelding to apply it self unto imaginations, overhardly to be believed.