Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a puissant manner; powerfully; potently.

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

  • adverb In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.

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  • adverb In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.

Etymologies

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puissant +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • That teaching is sharing, puissantly bareing the soul, airing weaknesses, caring as bold in its basics as love is revealing; all this is done in an aegus of trust, a vaporous scroll much older than reason.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • And acquired qualities are always less puissantly exercised, less effective in the results obtained.

    Balzac 2003

  • It invaded all circles with its lowering expedience; and he who was to depict its effects most puissantly did not escape its thrall.

    Balzac 2003

  • And acquired qualities are always less puissantly exercised, less effective in the results obtained.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • It invaded all circles with its lowering expedience; and he who was to depict its effects most puissantly did not escape its thrall.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • And acquired qualities are always less puissantly exercised, less effective in the results obtained.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • It invaded all circles with its lowering expedience; and he who was to depict its effects most puissantly did not escape its thrall.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • But, for all their denial, it lives and puissantly reigns.

    Apologia Diffidentis 1905

  • He overcame him then mightily, when he threw him puissantly out of his lordship which had thrown out by force our forefather.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • And as it is said, he made the plagues of Egypt, he departed and divided the Red Sea, he led the people of Israel by the desert and set them in the land of promission, he is had among the company of holy angels as bannerer, and bearing the sign of our Lord, he shall slay by the commandment of God, right puissantly, Antichrist that shall be in the Mount of Olivet.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

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