magnificently

English

Etymology

From Middle English magnyficently; equivalent to magnificent +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæɡˈnɪfɪsəntli/

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Adverb

magnificently (comparative more magnificently, superlative most magnificently)

1. In a magnificent manner.
   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 13–14:

     I never saw a more splendid scene: the ladies were magnificently dressed; most of them—at least most of the younger ones—looked handsome; but Miss Ingram was certainly the queen.

   • 1902, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady:

     He was remarkably good-looking from the very onset of his manhood and without being in any way a showy spendthrift, was quite magnificently extravagant.

   • 1946, Richard P. Dobson, “Kwangtung”, in China Cycle‎^[1], London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46-47:

     The country as I saw it from the train was magnificently green, and after Shiukwan it became seriously mountainous, so that the brave new railway wound precariously up the river-banks.

Translations

in a magnificent manner

• Catalan: magníficament (ca)
• Finnish: suurenmoisesti (fi), hienosti (fi), upeasti (fi), mahtavasti (fi)
• French: magnifiquement (fr)
• Italian: magnificamente (it)
• Portuguese: magnificamente (pt)
• Spanish: magníficamente (es)
• Swedish: magnifikt (sv)