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Definition of Strongly
1. Adverb. With strength or in a strong manner. "He was strongly opposed to the government"
2. Adverb. In a powerful manner. "The federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist"
Definition of Strongly
1. adv. In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
Definition of Strongly
1. Adverb. in a strong or powerful manner ¹
2. Adverb. very much ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strongly
1. strong [adv] - See also: strong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strongly
Literary usage of Strongly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"I put it strongly to her. But I advise you to talk to Dorothea herself. ...
I had spoken strongly before. But I can cut off the entail, you know. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Others hold that this objection is without weight. correct, and it strongly
suggests that the ether is incompressible, and that there is some kind of an ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"After a siege the castle, although strongly fortified, surrendered, ... The mother
pleaded strongly with Pembroke to spare the lives of two of her sons. ..."
4. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"'I should strongly advise you to sleep if you can tonight, Air. West, in preference
to listening to the finest tunes in the world,' the doctor said, ..."
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