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aˈmazingly, adv.|əˈmeɪzɪŋlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an amazing manner. Now often hyperbolically in colloquial use for: Exceedingly, very.
1673Ladies Call. i. i. §15 There is no noise on this side hell can be more amazingly odious. 1744H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 98 (1834) I. 332 My father has exerted himself most amazingly. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 178 The thigh bones of some amazingly large animal. 1801M. Edgeworth Good Fr. Gov. (1852) 99 She speaks English amazingly well for a Frenchwoman. 1873Black Pr. Thule viii. 121 He is an amazingly clever fellow. |