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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

... to you, we have spent the evening in very pleasant conversation. However, although I am enjoying myself mightily in this way, my people at home must be getting anxious, and so I begin to think that we ...

— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

... if only one had the wisdom and wit to find them. Marna seemed to know of some. She had become acquainted with a number of these happy unknown little folk, to whom it never had occurred that celebrity was an essential of joy, and she liked them mightily. Marna, indeed, liked high and low—always providing she didn't dislike them. If they were Irish, her inclination toward them was accelerated. There were certain wonders of Marna's ardent soul which were for ...

— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie

... result of the voting—to admit of any possibility of a mistake, and he describes how several of the members came afterwards to his lodgings, and, so he writes, 'embraced us with all the outward marks of love and kindness, and seemed mightily pleased at what was done, and told us we should now be no more English and Scotch, but Brittons.' In the matter of nomenclature, at all events, the promises of the Union have ...

— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell

... the situation round the elevator shaft in status quo. Nothing had happened, save that Hickey's rage and vexation had increased mightily. ...

— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance

... my dear E——, to take her up in the wagon and endure her abominable dirt and foulness in the closest proximity, rather than let her drag her poor old limbs all that way back; but I was glad when we gained her abode and lost her company. I am mightily reminded occasionally in these parts of Trinculo's soliloquy over Caliban. The people at Jones's had done their work at half-past three. Most of the houses were tidy and clean, so were many of the babies. On visiting the cabin of an exceedingly decent woman called Peggy, I found ...

— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble

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