hareiously

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === hariowsly === Etymology === Presumably from Middle English harageous, which is also attested with closer spelling haraious. haraious bears comparison to Old French aragier (“become enraged”), though all Middle English forms have the initial h, perhaps through the influence of Old French harer (“to set a dog on”), whence English harass, etc. === Adjective === hareiously cruelly, sternly c. 1350, Richard Lavynham, A Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins, transcribed by Wilfred Lister, "A Stylistic Analysis of Jacob's Well (Chapters 1 – 50)", PhD thesis (Southampton, 1986), page 29: Indignacion is whan a man hath disdayn & despit of simple folk & lest not to speke to his pouer euyncristyn ... & hariowsly takyth on with cristis pore peple. c. 1440, Jacob's Well, transcribed by Wilfred Lister, "A Stylistic Analysis of Jacob's Well (Chapters 1 – 50)", PhD thesis (Southampton, 1986), page 28: The sexte cornere of pride is indignacyoun; that is, whan thou hast dysdeyn of symple folk, & lust noght to speke to hem but full of scorn & of iapys; in beryng the foule to thi sogettys, & hareiously takyst on wyth hem, & wyth thi peerys... === References === “harāǧeǒuslī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.