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AMAZINGLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise
Example:
amazingly, he finished medical school in three years
Synonyms:
amazingly; astonishingly; surprisingly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
amazing (surprising greatly)
Context examples:
I am afraid of her, as I have told you before, quite afraid of her, because she is so very clever; but I respect her amazingly, and wish we had such a neighbour at Uppercross.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You will know, from this description, I must mean Captain Tilney, who, as you may remember, was amazingly disposed to follow and tease me, before you went away.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
And Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It is a great change; and though she is amazingly fortunate—such a situation, I suppose, as no young woman before ever met with on first going out—do not think us ungrateful, Miss Woodhouse, for such surprising good fortune—(again dispersing her tears)—but, poor dear soul! if you were to see what a headache she has.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I am amazingly glad of it.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
No one ate much, but everyone looked very happy, and the old room seemed to brighten up amazingly when the first romance of the family began there.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I am amazingly agitated, as you perceive.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"Come now, don't lay it all on yourself. You know I proposed the cupboard," broke in Snodgrass, who was enjoying the joke amazingly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But it is, as she presently discovered, for her spirits began to rise, and her table to blossom under her skillful hands, the girls were very kind, and that one little act seemed to have cleared the atmosphere amazingly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
