Meaning & use

Angerly

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In an angry manner; an archaic form of "angrily."

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"Leave at once!" she cried angerly, slamming the door behind her.

The old text describes the king speaking angerly to his disloyal court.

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Once common in Elizabethan English, including in Shakespeare's plays, it has since been almost entirely replaced by "angrily."

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