ruthfully

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In a manner that is ruthful:; Sorrowfully, ruefully.
    — cæsar [ruthfully] Rufio, Rufio: my men at the barricade are between the sea party and the shore party. I have murdered them.
  2. In a manner that is ruthful:; In a manner that causes pity; piteously.
    — 1997, Neil W. Hamilton (quoting Owen Lattimore), Zealotry and Academic Freedom, page 313, This commonplace observation becomes very poignant when you are the man accused, and a man like McCarthy ruthfully exploits his advantage by making the accusations so sensational that the revelation of the truth seems drab and dull by comparison.
  3. In a manner that is ruthful:; Compassionately; mercifully.
    — Lee's wait was ruthfully short, although he might have traded the first news that reached him for a return to uncertainty.

词形变化

more ruthfully comparative most ruthfully superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwan
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-West Germanic *-u
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu
Old English hrēow
Middle English rewe
Middle English -the
Old Norse hrygðinflu.
Middle English reuþe
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
Middle English reuþful
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English rewthfully
English ruthfully
From Middle English rewthfully, equivalent to ruthful + -ly.
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