efficaciously
efficaciously adverb: in an efficacious manner.
Adverb
efficaciously (comparative more efficaciously, superlative most efficaciously)
- in an efficacious manner
- […] if in this extatick State of Dreaming (during which the Astral Impulses are incomparably stronger than in common Dreams, or in the ordinary Course of Life) that prophetick Energy more efficaciously exerts itself […]1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities, page 192
- There could be no more perfect description of the divided will, when the higher wishes lack just that last acuteness, that touch of explosive intensity, of dynamogenic quality (to use the slang of the psychologists), that enables them to burst their shell, and make irruption efficaciously into life...1902, William James, “Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans...
Forms of efficaciously
| comparative | more efficaciously |
|---|---|
| superlative | most efficaciously |
Origin of efficaciously
From efficacious + -ly.
Questions about efficaciously
- What does efficaciously mean?
- Efficaciously means in an efficacious manner.
- What part of speech is efficaciously?
- Efficaciously is an adverb.
Words near efficaciously in the dictionary
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