Hĕav'i-ly, adv.
(hĕv'ĭ-lĭ), adv. [From heavy.]
- With great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
- With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively; sorrowfully.
I came hither to transport the tidings Which I have heavily borne. Shak. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? Shak. 3. Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily. And took off their chariot-wheels, that they drave them heavily. Ex. xiv. 25.