HEAV'ILY, adv. hev'ily. from heavy. With great weight as, to bear heavily on a thing to be heavily loaded.
1. With great weight of grief grievously afflictively. When calamities fall heavily on the christian, he finds consolation in Christ.
2. Sorrowfully with grief.
I came hither to transport the tidings,
Which I have heavily borne.
3. With an air of sorrow or dejection.
Why looks your Grace so heavily to day?
4. With weight oppressively. Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.
5. Slowly and laboriously with difficulty as, to move heavily.
So they drove them heavily. Exodus 14
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