dismayfully

English

Etymology

From dismayful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

dismayfully (comparative more dismayfully, superlative most dismayfully)

1. (rare) In dismay.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Nought feared they what he could do or say, / But th'onely feare that was before their vew, / From which like mazed deare dismayfully they flew.