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No, the word 'gravely' is an adverb, a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Example: The CEO spoke gravely of the future of the company.

The word 'gravely' is the adverb form of the adjective 'grave'.

The noun form of the adjective 'grave' is graveness.

The word 'grave' is also a noun form, a word for a place of burial for a dead body; a word for a thing.

The word 'grave' is also an obsolete verb meaning to carve or sculpt. Many people are familiar with the term from The Bible, 'a graven image'. The word 'graven' is the past participle of the verb to grave, functioning as an adjective to describe the noun 'image'.

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