"mournfully" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mournful + -ly.",
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      "form": "more mournfully",
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          "text": "1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid\n\"Why have not we an immortal soul?\" asked the little mermaid mournfully; \"I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.\""
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          "ref": "1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 10, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.",
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          "ref": "1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 104:",
          "text": "So she dared not tell anyone how she felt, but went about mournfully, with a heavy heart.",
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        "In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something."
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          "word": "sadly"
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        {
          "word": "sorrowfully"
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        {
          "word": "ruefully"
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          "text": "1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid\n\"Why have not we an immortal soul?\" asked the little mermaid mournfully; \"I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.\""
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