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Mightily

adverb

Powerfully or vigorously.

(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree. Synonyms: mighty, powerful, right. "He's mighty tired" , "It is powerful humid" , "That boy is powerful big now" , "They have a right nice place" , "They rejoiced mightily"

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"Mightily" Quotes from Famous Books

... twice, thrice, or ten times over—unnatural task!—are responsible for much of that artifice. We can all point in excuse to Shakspere, who was a very rough-and-ready person, and whose methods would shock Flaubert. Indeed, the amateurishness of Shakspere has been mightily exposed of late years. But nobody seems to care. If Flaubert had been a greater artist he might have been ...

— The Author's Craft • Arnold Bennett

... very really embarrassed. Not that I would not have given willingly, for I had ample resources at the moment and was mightily concerned about the sad household. But I knew that the little Duchess would take Oliphant's ears from his head if she guessed that he had dared to borrow from me, and that, if I lent, her back would for ever ...

— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan

... danger in the plan, to himself, but he must risk that. It mattered little what happened to him if he could only save his David, his dear, kind big brother, who would never have thought of doing wrong had it not been for those wicked men who had led him astray. Patsy feared those men mightily. He knew their anger would be terrible should they discover how their plan had been frustrated. They might even kill him if they found him out, but he hoped they need not know. He would confess to David alone at supper time that evening; no matter how angry, ...

— The Alchemist's Secret • Isabel Cecilia Williams

... would be very interesting," said Matilda; whom indeed the description interested mightily. "But how could I help? ...

— The House in Town • Susan Warner

... must be on Christ the Light, and the wise soul "must watch the winde and tide of the Spirit, as the seaman watcheth the naturall winde and tide. When the tide of the Spirit floweth then put thy hand to the oar, for then if thou row strongly thou maiest advance mightily."[13] ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

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