þearle
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From þearl (“severe, harsh”) + -e
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
þearle (comparative þearlor, superlative þearlost)
- very hard, keenly, harshly, severely
- greatly
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
- María wæs ða cuma ðær, swā swā þæt godspel ús segð; and for ðæs folces geðryle wæs þæt gesthus ðearle genyrwed.
- Mary was there a stranger, as the gospel tells us; and through the concourse of people the inn was greatly crowded.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"