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Definition of Prodigiously
1. Adverb. To a prodigious degree. "The prices of farms rose prodigiously"
Definition of Prodigiously
1. adv. Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.
Definition of Prodigiously
1. Adverb. In a prodigious manner; enormously, wonderfully, astonishingly or impressively ¹
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Definition of Prodigiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prodigiously
Literary usage of Prodigiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of America by William Robertson (1821)
"... of the leaf in heating the air in contact with it, is prodigiously diminished.
For those observations, which throw much additional light on this curious ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"... abused tins power so prodigiously as the Roman clergy ; nor even if h"
ceremo^ '' '°' from ... prodigiously ..."
3. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"pose you know our uncle Fielding* is dead : I regret him prodigiously. MWM Oct.
31, 1723. I WRITE to you at this time piping-hot from the birth-night; ..."
4. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"This circumstance, joined to the late loss of the convoy, has raised insurance
prodigiously in London. ..."
5. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"The captain afterwards very properly made light of it; but at the time, being in
the act of raising a cup to his mouth, I remember he turned prodigiously ..."
6. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald by Thomas Moore (1831)
"At present I feel most prodigiously sunk with all the surrounding distress, but
I am determined to exert myself, for the little use I may be of. ..."
7. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1876)
"Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child Pray that thcir burthens may
not fall this day, Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crossed : But' on ..."
8. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"Under these circumstances, the excess of the public exultation was prodigiously
augmented by the dejection that pervaded all ranks during the former part of ..."
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