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FIRMLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With resolute determination
Example:
you must stand firm
Synonyms:
firm; firmly; steadfastly; unwaveringly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
firm (marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
With firmness
Example:
held hard to the railing
Synonyms:
firmly; hard
Classified under:
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a secure manner; in a manner free from danger
Example:
she held the child securely
Synonyms:
firmly; securely
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
“Sir Charles Tregellis is quite within his rights,” said Craven, firmly.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
(NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star, NASA)
Then the king’s daughter thanked him, and said to her maidens: “Show some strength, and step firmly on the peas.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
An ultrasound transducer (probe) is pressed firmly against the skin of the abdomen.
(Abdominal ultrasound, NCI Dictionary)
A device designed to hold things firmly together.
(Clamp Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
I was firmly convinced in my own mind that Justine, and indeed every human being, was guiltless of this murder.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Cause to be firmly attached; stick or hold together and resist separation.
(Fix, NCI Thesaurus)
How hard it was to reiterate firmly, "I am going."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It took him a little while to recover from his surprise at the cure of his first, and as he had firmly believed, his last and only love.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You understand the force of influence pretty well, Harriet; but I would have you so firmly established in good society, as to be independent even of Hartfield and Miss Woodhouse.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
