weightilyadv.
/ˈweɪtᵻli/, U.S. /ˈweɪdᵻli/ In a weighty manner; with or as with weight. Usually figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adverb]
weightily1552
importantly1600
material1653
materially1654
eventfully1795
significantly1871
the mind > language > statement > [adverb] > gravely, seriously, or solemnly
weightily1552
soberly1579
in sober sadness1593
aggravatingly1661
in sober earnest1836
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Weyghtelye, pensiculate.
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 25v It is very needefull..diligently to see, and weightely to consider the cote armors, whiche are put to them to bee paynted.
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 890 in Wks. (1640) III No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily.
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1668) ii. xiv. 257 How few..do seriously spend their studies in any thing weightily Moral or Intellectual?
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vii. Observ. 170 He makes his agents speak weightily and sententiously.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. 409 Abuses, which..told most weightily on the serious judgment of the age.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xix. 410 There was some division of opinion upon the bench on the question thus weightily opened.
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