Definition of "gravely" []

• In a grave or serious manner. (adverb)

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• "Well, today at mass, last night in a speech to U.S. bishops, and even on the plane en route to Washington, the pope has faced up to what he calls the gravely immoral sexual abuse of children by priests."
• "His father, Prince Abdulaziz, looked on gravely from the public gallery."
• "Fortunately there is another side to that virtue which the German Kaiser used to call obstinacy (laughter); but it is only in gravely difficult situations that the indomitable, courageous obstinacy of our race is wont to assert itself."