hreowlice
Old English
Alternative forms
- hrēoƿlīċe
Etymology
From hrēow + -līċe.
Adverb
hrēowlīċe
- miserably, cruelly, grievously, in a way to excite pity.
Descendants
- Middle English: reowliche, reuliche, rewly
- English: ruly
References
- hreówlíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary