Mountainously
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a mountainous manner.
"Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length, Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie, And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;"
Example
More examples"Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length, Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie, And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;"
Etymology
From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
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