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| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : sawr-lee, sohr- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɔr li, ˈsoʊr- |
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Définition of sorely
Origin :- Old English sarlice "grievously, mournfully, bitterly, painfully;" see sore (adj.) + -ly (2).
- adv extremely
- adv badly
- Sorely distressed, he walked back to his lodgings in Thirty-second Street.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- We visited him at Winchester, and found him sorely old and with failing wits.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Then she lay down herself on the sofa beside her bed, sorely exhausted.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Edward Gilder did none of these things, though his heart was sorely wounded.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Magnificent was the day, indeed, and sorely did La Malne tempt us to a halt.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- She was sorely needed, too, to put something like resolution into the chicken-hearts there.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- Johnson, returned the Doctor, gently, we must not forget how sorely they have been tried.
- Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
- If ever man were sorely puzzled and perplexed, the locksmith was, that night.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- But what was proper and what was improper was sorely muddled together in her brain.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- But what had he omitted to do that he was thus so sorely tried?
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
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