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Highly

adverb

To a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect. Synonym: extremely. "He spoke highly of her" , "Does not think highly of his writing" , "Extremely interesting"

At a high rate or wage.

In a high position or level or rank.

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... rather a "sell," as at Eton it is called, to have seen the long-desired and highly-paid-for box disgorge nought but Melanesian reports! all thanks to Mrs. Martin, who packed it after I was off ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Christians. And surely, when we think of it, it is not strange that an intense jealousy should be exhibited on behalf of observances and ceremonies, traceable back to such remote antiquity, and so intimately bound up with the whole political and social life of the nation. It is, indeed, highly probable that, in the great changes Japan is undergoing, she will find other methods of cherishing the continuity of her, in many ways, illustrious past. But meanwhile, Christians in Japan may rejoice that they are permitted, ...

— Religion in Japan • George A. Cobbold, B.A.

... highly illustrative of the character of Faraday now comes into view. He gave an account of his discovery of Magneto-electricity in a letter to his friend M. Hachette, of Paris, who communicated the letter to the Academy of Sciences. The letter was translated and published; ...

— Faraday As A Discoverer • John Tyndall

... in a land offering the bountiful reward of 'the Funds' to poetic genius, born in obscurity. After the applause had subsided, the portrait of Clare, prefixed to the 'Village Minstrel,' passed round the circle of noble West End visitors. All pronounced the face to be highly distingue, and one young lady enthusiastically declared that John Clare looked 'like a nobleman in disguise.' In which saying there was a ...

— The Life of John Clare • Frederick Martin

... 'gifts' of song or oratory, or the ability to paint or construct. But as certain gifts and graces are more developed in some individuals than in others, in like manner the sensitiveness which is called mediumship is more highly developed (or is capable of such development) in certain peculiarly constituted persons who may be regarded as supernormally gifted, yet as naturally so as are ...

— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita

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