adv. [f. SOUNDING ppl. a.1 + -LY2.] In a sounding manner; so as to emit or cause a sound, esp. a loud sound or noise; sonorously, imposingly.

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1697.  J. Sergeant, Solid Philos., 70. Those which by the smart motion of the Ayr, do come in thro’ the Drum of the Ear,… do affect it with a kind of vibration, or (as we may say) Soundingly.

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1844.  Dickens, Mart. Chuz., xiii. Ye Pharisees,… who soundingly appeal to human nature. Ibid. (1865), Mut. Fr., xvi. No attendant to slap him soundingly.

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1884.  J. T. Trowbridge, Farnell’s Folly, I. xiii. 141. The said library, so soundingly alluded to, was entirely imaginary.

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