"difficultly" meaning in English

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Adverb

Forms: more difficultly [comparative], most difficultly [superlative]
Etymology: difficult + -ly Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|difficult|ly}} difficult + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} difficultly (comparative more difficultly, superlative most difficultly)
  1. (archaic) With difficulty; not easily. Tags: archaic Translations (in a difficult manner): трудно (trudno) (Bulgarian), difícilment (Catalan), 難於 (Chinese Mandarin), 难于 (nányú) (Chinese Mandarin), 難以 (Chinese Mandarin), 难以 (nányǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), malfacile (Esperanto), vaikeasti (Finnish), difficilement (French), dificilmente (Galician), δύσκολα (dýskola) (Greek), difficilement (Norman), dificilmente (Portuguese), dificil (Romanian), în mod dificil (Romanian), difícilmente (Spanish)

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