Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a powerful manner; with great force or energy; potently; strongly.

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  • adverb In a powerful manner.

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

  • adverb in a manner having a powerful influence
  • adverb in a powerful manner

Etymologies

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powerful +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Most of their living descendants, including me, remain powerfully connected to the rough and not especially hospitable sheep country that their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents opened up in the second half of the nineteenth century.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • She dreamed of Negro women appearing as flickering images in powerfully lighted boxes that could be seen in sitting rooms far distant, and colored men dressed in garish costumes like children, playing odd sporting games and bragging like drunkardsevery bit of pride, decency, and morality squeezed clean out of them.

    Excerpt: Song Yet Sung by James McBride 2008

  • In each case, the music amplifies the message in powerfully and socially relevant way.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The encounter that stages Julie's absence most powerfully is the lovers 'first kiss, as described by

    Ildiko Csengei 2008

  • The thing that story does so powerfully is to unite those two journeys in this magical way, so that we can go to a movie or read a book and we become this character.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Michael Hauge, Part 3 2006

  • Most often, those writers who have tapped in powerfully, enough to start bidding wars and land gigantic advances, have done it because they are passionate about what they’re writing.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Listen to YOUR Voice 2010

  • It’s an interesting side point … if we can write something that resonates that quickly and powerfully is a great thing to shoot for in a title, and then in the material that follows.

    5 Reasons Your Story Stinks (and How to Air It Out) | Write to Done 2009

  • He thought, He's gone mad, and found the idea powerfully reassuring.

    The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010

  • The attention is here called powerfully into play.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • Just watching them ride away affected young Gus and young Call powerfully.

    Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry 1995

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