| 单词 |
enormously |
| 释义 |
enormously, adv.|ɪˈnɔːrməslɪ|
[f. enormous + -ly2.]
In an enormous manner.
†1.
a. Abnormally, eccentrically, irregularly.
b. Lawlessly, criminally, immorally. Obs.
1617Hieron Wks. II. 289 He, that preacheth most enormously, professeth the cleane contrarie. a1619Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 94 There Bull-baytings, to which they are so enormously addicted. 1686Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 260 From which the monster does enormously deviate. 1689Myst. Iniq. 20 Popery..provides for their living as enormously as they please. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. (1786) I. 408 Had man's body been made..too enormously gigantic, it would, etc.
2. To a vast extent; vastly, hugely, prodigiously.
a1728Woodward (J.), A notion so enormously absurd and senseless. 1741–2Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) I. xviii. 66 It will be enormously long, but I have prepared you for it. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 381 The rise in the last year..is enormously out of all proportion. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §20. 338 The alleged temperature was so enormously below the freezing point. 1867Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 306 The city has increased enormously. |
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