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MIGHTILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
Example:
they rejoiced mightily
Synonyms:
mightily; mighty; powerful; right
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Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Powerfully or vigorously
Example:
he strove mightily to achieve a better position in life
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Context examples:
The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and Hungerford Market being a very different place in those days, there was a low wooden colonnade before the door (not very unlike that before the house where the little man and woman used to live, in the old weather-glass), which pleased Mr. Dick mightily.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
