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Greatly

//ˈɡɹeɪtli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    To a great extent or degree.

    "Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise."

  2. 2
    Nobly; magnanimously. archaic

    "His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome."

Adverb
  1. 1
    to an extraordinary extent or degree wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English gretly, gretely, gretliche, greteliche, equivalent to great + -ly.

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