(a) In the worst manner; most unpleasantly, most grievously; most maliciously; also, with intensive force [the precise gloss is highly contextual]: most keenly, most intensely, most; ~ willed, most ill-willed, most malevolent; alder ~, worst of all; (b) most harshly, most unfavorably; (c) most unhappily, most miserably; faren ~, to be most miserable; also, in impers. construction: worthe hire ~ of al wommen, might it befall her most unhappily of all women, may she be most miserable of all women; (d) least easily, least readily; mouen ~, to endure least easily; (e) least adequately, least well; ~ loved, least loved, most hated; (f) error for wers(e adv. comp.