starkly

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Etymology

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From Middle English starkli, starcliche, sterkliche, stercliche, from Old English stearclīċe (strongly; stoutly; vigorously; vehemently; fiercely; strictly), from Proto-Germanic *starkulīka (strongly; stiffly), from *starkulīkaz (strong; rigid), from *starkuz (strong; stiff; stark), equivalent to stark +‎ -ly.

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starkly (comparative more starkly, superlative most starkly)

  1. In a stark manner; with great contrast.
    The dark mountains stood out starkly against the pale sky.
    • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 1:
      We initially came to this data collection technique through research conducted into the linguistic landscape at NIE which yielded an overwhelmingly English-biased signage which was starkly at odds with our own day-to-day experience at the institute.

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