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Etymology tree English booming Middle English -ly English -ly English boomingly From booming + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a booming manner; loudly.
   • Then, impelled to some gesture, he raised his voice and in one of his first basso notes called boomingly and without reticence for the waiter. 1928 July 28, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Basil: The Freshest Boy”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
   • 'Mid this spectacle of wide and wanton spoil, insular noises of falling rocks would boomingly explode upon the silence and fright all the echoes, which ran shrieking in and out among the caves, as wailing women and children in some assaulted town. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, Book 25, Chapter 4:
   • The wise king Mufasa (boomingly voiced in both the original and the Favreau remake by the late, great James Earl Jones) is murdered; the evil uncle Scar takes over Pride Rock; Mufasa’s son Simba returns to overthrow Scar; the animal kingdom rejoices and everyone lives happily ever after. 2024 December 18, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney's taxidermized IP is brighter and livelier in Mufasa: The Lion King”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2025:
   • A questioner from the floor […] accused him of being too rich to care about ordinary people; and while Gerald boomingly deplored the statement you could see it sinking and settling in his flushed features as a kind of acclaim. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

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