strainably

English

Adverb

strainably (comparative more strainably, superlative most strainably)

1. (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

• “strainably”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.