hardly (the meaning ‘scarcely’, into which 2 imperceptibly passes, is the commonest)
1.
severely, harshly H8 I. ii.
105, Cym. III. iii. 8.
2.
with difficulty Gent. I. i. 143, II. i. 120, 2H4 II. iv. 123,
Cor. V. ii. 78
“I was moved,”
Mac. V. iii. 62.
