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massively, adv.|ˈmæsɪvlɪ|
[f. massive + -ly2.]
a. In a massive manner or form.
1550Sir R. Bowes in Hodgson Hist. Northumb. iii. (1828) II. 200 That side to be massively rampiered with earth. 1844Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets 747 And so..Rose the full notes; now parted off In pauses massively aloof, Like measured thunders. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. I. 259 Houses built so massively..that [etc.]. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 97/2 The road of elaborate verbal analysis of a poem which the trained reader immediately and massively feels to be wrong. Ibid. 27 Feb. 113/3 We must have massively responded..to a poem..before we can usefully talk about it. 1962Listener 29 Mar. 540/1 The Administration was never crystal-clear on exactly how we would massively retaliate with nuclear weapons. 1974Physics Bull. Apr. 132/3 Past CEGB technological choices and commercial practices have resulted in massively unproductive investments.
b. nonce-use. By masses of persons.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lix, An assumption which..was massively acted on at that date of the world's history. |