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weightily, adv.|ˈweɪtɪlɪ|
[f. weighty + -ly2.]
In a weighty manner; with or as with weight. Usually fig.
1552Huloet, Weyghtelye, pensiculate. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 25 b, It is very needefull..diligently to see, and weightely to consider the cote armors, whiche are put to them to bee paynted. a1637B. Jonson Discov. Wks. 1640 II. 101 No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily. 1667H. More Div. Dial. ii. xiv. (1668) 257 How few..do seriously spend their studies in any thing weightily Moral or Intellectual? 1725Broome Pope's Odyss. Notes vii. 379 II. 170 He makes his agents speak weightily and sententiously. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 409 Abuses, which..told most weightily on the serious judgment of the age. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. xix. 410 There was some division of opinion upon the bench on the question thus weightily opened. |