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1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 40 With these women, I say, did God worke potentlie.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 135 You are Potently oppos'd, and with a Malice Of as great Size. View more context for this quotation

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xvii. 129 The Air having more room..does less potently press upon the subjacent Mercury.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 102 It [sc. the draught]..potently expels..granulating Tartar.

1740 J. Wesley Jrnl. 27 Mar. in Extract (1744) 29 Idle Tales, which they now potently believe.

1788 E. Inchbald Such Things Are ii. i. 20 To him have I sent you to be reclaimed..who, free from faults, or even foibles, of his own, has yet more potently the blessing given, of tenderness for ours.

1821 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 12 Jan. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1978) VIII. 26 I can swear in German potently, when I like.

1884 W. S. Lilly in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 261 A new conception..destined most potently to influence the structure of society.

1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 232 Not every witness in a European court is a sincere believer in the divine nature of his oath on the Bible, and yet the oath does call to mind very potently the sacred obligation he undertakes in the court.

1994 Food & Wine Oct. 86/3 There are fat, wild porcinis, potently aromatic white truffles and the world's finest hazelnuts.