magnificently

English

Etymology

From Middle English magnyficently; equivalent to magnificent +‎ -ly.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæɡˈnɪfɪsəntli/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adverb

magnificently (comparative more magnificently, superlative most magnificently)

  1. In a magnificent manner.
    • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. [], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., [], →OCLC, pages 13–14:
      I never saw a more splendid scene: the ladies were magnificently dressed; most of them—at least most of the younger ones—looked handsome; but Miss Ingram was certainly the queen.
    • 1902, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady:
      He was remarkably good-looking from the very onset of his manhood and without being in any way a showy spendthrift, was quite magnificently extravagant.
    • 1946, Richard P. Dobson, “Kwangtung”, in China Cycle[1], London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46-47:
      The country as I saw it from the train was magnificently green, and after Shiukwan it became seriously mountainous, so that the brave new railway wound precariously up the river-banks.

Translations

References

  1. ^ magnificently, adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.