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FORCIBLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a forcible manner
Example:
keep in mind the dangers of imposing our own values and prejudices too forcibly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
forcible (impelled by physical force especially against resistance)
Context examples:
“The importance of the point struck me so forcibly that I sent a special wire to Dartmoor yesterday to clear the matter up. The boy locked the door before he left it. The window, I may add, was not large enough for a man to get through.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now if ever, occurred an eligible opportunity for 'going to the devil', as he once forcibly expressed it, for he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of providing employment for full and idle hands.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo’s evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forcibly put down the Yahoo’s throat.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Not only had this law been forcibly and many times impressed on him by his mother's nose and paw, but in him the instinct of fear was developing.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At last, as time was passing fast, and, for many other reasons, I wished to get her home at once, I shook her more forcibly, till finally she opened her eyes and awoke.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Happening to arrive at the door as it was opened to the afternoon milkman, I was reminded of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber more forcibly yet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In this instance I could not see, but I could hear the impact of the blows—the soft crushing sound made by flesh striking forcibly against flesh.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She was most forcibly struck.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
As soon as he beheld my form, he placed his hands before his eyes and uttered a shrill scream; I drew his hand forcibly from his face and said, ‘Child, what is the meaning of this?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial, and the circumstances to which he particularly alluded as having passed at the Netherfield ball, and as confirming all his first disapprobation, could not have made a stronger impression on his mind than on hers.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
