abhorrently

English

Etymology tree

English abhorrent

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

English -ly

English abhorrently

From abhorrent + -ly.

abhorrently (comparative more abhorrently, superlative most abhorrently)

In a manner, or to a degree, that is abhorrent; with abhorrence. [Early 19^th century.]^[1]
- 1982 June, Texas Monthly, volume 10, number 6, page 168:
  From a basic belief that dropping a nuclear bomb would be an abhorrently immoral act, the bishop has taken the next step: he has tried to make a case that there is only one right way and one wrong way to avoid nuclear catastrophe.

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abhorrently”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.