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EFFECTUALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an effectual manner
Example:
Bismarck was constantly criticised by the more liberal newspapers, and he retaliated by passing an emergency decree that effectually muzzled the press
Classified under:
Antonym:
ineffectually (in an ineffectual manner)
Context examples:
It drew from her, however, the exertion of speaking, which nothing else had so effectually done before; and she asked Bingley whether he meant to make any stay in the country at present.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Here ceased the concert part of the evening, for Miss Woodhouse and Miss Fairfax were the only young lady performers; but soon (within five minutes) the proposal of dancing—originating nobody exactly knew where—was so effectually promoted by Mr. and Mrs. Cole, that every thing was rapidly clearing away, to give proper space.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I did; whereupon began a heaving, stamping, clattering process, accompanied by a barking and baying which removed me effectually some yards' distance; but I would not be driven quite away till I saw the event.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were rather belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But he found, in reply to this question, that Wickham still cherished the hope of more effectually making his fortune by marriage in some other country.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was his object to blind all about him; and no one, I am sure, could be more effectually blinded than myself—except that I was not blinded—that it was my good fortune—that, in short, I was somehow or other safe from him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
After a while, they began to think he was not going to wake up till night, and I'm not sure that he would, had he not been effectually roused by Amy's cry of joy at sight of her mother.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was effectually prevented, but she wasn't on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
