Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hardly

Hardly (hard"ly) , adverb

[Anglo-Saxon heardlice. See Hard.]

1.
In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
Recovering hardly what he lost before. — Dryden
2.
Unwillingly; grudgingly.
The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent. — Milton
3.
Scarcely; barely; not quite; not wholly.
Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. — South
4.
Severely; harshly; roughly.
He has in many things been hardly used. — Swift
5.
Confidently; hardily. [Obsolete] — Holland
6.
Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obsolete] — Chaucer