Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a magnificent manner; with magnificence; splendidly; brilliantly; gorgeously.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a Magnificent manner.

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  • adverb In a magnificent manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an impressively beautiful manner
  • adverb extremely well

Etymologies

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magnificent +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • In his dreams, his mind melts with the blackness of space and his body fuels the light reactions that dance magnificently from the Gate.

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  • Thanks to this ancient custom, the two French communes raise the finest onions in the department, this vegetable never failing, as carrots are apt to do in that locality: on the contrary, the onions are well-grown, finely rounded, and in short, magnificently "turned."

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

  • In the story of Cupid and Psyche, he is described as a magnificently handsome young man.

    Cupid 2002

  • He uses abstract terms magnificently, but almost always with a reference to concrete realities, not as the names of separate entities.

    Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • He deploys diaries, journals and dispatches magnificently, from the Greek soldier bereft at having to leave his beloved grey horse during the bitter winter of 1941 to the grumbling professor in Dresden the great Viktor Klemperer and riveting reports by Grossman himself.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • "Sophocles has been described as magnificently cute, with his father's lips," the newspaper reports.

    Celebrity Baby Blog 2008

  • To her claims that the war is going "magnificently," Reilly gave his famous "Oh, pa leeez!" look and said "Our FOX correspondents in Baghdad are afraid to leave their hotel."

    May 2004 2004

  • C … Obergruppenführer Heydrich, I mean, not Obergruppenführer Kaltenbrunner whom I know well, we’re from the same province and he’s the one who had me enter the SS and he still remembers — no, the Chief played the violin magnificently.

    Furies 2009

  • This is the very strongest support for the assertion: Frank Chenoweth and Tappingham Marsh agreed, with tears of enthusiasm, that "magnificently" was the only word.

    The Two Vanrevels Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Happily he was proved wrong: Weisz, said Spencer, rose to the challenge "magnificently".

    The First Post: Latest 2010

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