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magnificently en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /mæɡˈnɪfɪsəntli/

Etymology

From Middle English magnyficently; equivalent to magnificent + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a magnificent manner.
   • I never saw a more splendid scene: the ladies were magnificently dressed; most of them—at least most of the younger ones—looked handsome; but Miss Ingram was certainly the queen. 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 13–14:
   • He was remarkably good-looking from the very onset of his manhood and without being in any way a showy spendthrift, was quite magnificently extravagant. 1902, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady:
   • The country as I saw it from the train was magnificently green, and after Shiukwan it became seriously mountainous, so that the brave new railway wound precariously up the river-banks. 1946, Richard P. Dobson, “Kwangtung”, in China Cycle, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46-47:

Forms

Translations (10)

ca magníficament (in a magnificent manner) · fi upeasti (in a magnificent manner) · sv magnifikt (in a magnificent manner) · es magníficamente (in a magnificent manner) · fi suurenmoisesti (in a magnificent manner) · fi mahtavasti (in a magnificent manner) · fr magnifiquement (in a magnificent manner) · pt magnificamente (in a magnificent manner) · fi hienosti (in a magnificent manner) · it magnificamente (in a magnificent manner)