strainably
English edit
Adverb edit
strainably (comparative more strainably, superlative most strainably)
- (obsolete) violently
- a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Rondeaux:
- I cannot therefore assail her
With pitiful plaint and scalding fyer,
That out of my breast doth strainably start
References edit
- “strainably”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.