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Definition of Powerfully
1. 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"
2. Adverb. In a manner having a powerful influence. "Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind"
Definition of Powerfully
1. Adverb. In a powerful manner. ¹
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Definition of Powerfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Powerfully
Literary usage of Powerfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1862)
"RELIGION CONSIDERED AS A POLITICAL INSTITUTION, WHICH powerfully CONTRIBUTES ...
This sect contributed powerfully to the establishment of a democracy and a ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... light particles of any substance, whereas the only bodies powerfully acted on
magnetically are either magnets or their equivalents, or iron, nickel, ..."
3. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"Now oak-wood of that kind heats more powerfully than any other sort of tree; and
for this reason, where a slow fire is wanted, as in the case of gun-foundry ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... powerfully emphasizes the fact that the principle problem of perspective is
to determine whether its position is primary or secondary ; whether, ..."
5. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1890)
"Physical i'iill-rs act most powerfully in the early sillers Of civilization which
have necessarily i:pI..'il placo in warm climates. ..."
6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"It attribute« to William III a pro- tributed powerfully to induce Queen Anne's
ject for making himself an absolute monarch, advisers to revive, ..."
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