Word of the Day:
mightily
What It Means
With much physical force, power, or strength; also, with divine or superhuman power or strength.
With much emotional, intellectual, or mental force or power; vehemently.
Of a characteristic: provided or present to a powerful or strong extent.
The chivalrous knights entered the lists and fought mightily.
Mightily in Context
“Time, O mighty and mightily peopled city, / Time is busy with thee.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English mightili (“with might, powerfully, strongly; forcefully, violently; greatly; etc.”), from Old English meahtiglice (“with might, powerfully, mightily”), from meahtiġ, mihtiġ (“powerful, mighty”) + -līċe (suffix forming adverbs). Mihtiġ is derived from Proto-Germanic *mahtīgaz (“mighty”), from *mahtiz (“force, strength; ability, power”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”)) + *-gaz (suffix with the sense ‘being; doing; having’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, mighty + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
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