adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an amazing manner. Now often hyperbolically in colloquial use for: Exceedingly, very.

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1673.  Ladies Call., I. i. § 15. There is no noise on this side hell can be more amazingly odious.

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1744.  H. Walpole, Lett. to H. Mann, 98 (1834), I. 332. My father has exerted himself most amazingly.

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1794.  Sullivan, View Nat., II. 178. The thigh bones of some amazingly large animal.

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1801.  Miss Edgeworth, Good Fr. Gov. (1852), 99. She speaks English amazingly well for a Frenchwoman.

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1873.  Black, Pr. Thule, viii. 121. He is an amazingly clever fellow.

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