voluminously
English
Etymology
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From voluminous + -ly.
Adverb
voluminously (comparative more voluminously, superlative most voluminously)
- In a voluminous manner.
- 1893, Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (editors), A Woman of the Century, Anne Reeve Aldrich:
- She wrote constantly and voluminously, usually destroying her work from month to month, so that but few of her earlier verses are extant. She also read widely, her taste inclining to the early English poets and dramatists and to mediæval literature.
- 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “(please specify |chapter=I to XXVI)”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
- At the pronounced words and the spontaneous echo that voluminously rebounded them, Captain Vere, either thro' stoic self-control or a sort of momentary paralysis induced by emotional shock, stood erectly rigid as a musket in the ship-armorer's rack.
- 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
- He was rather shabbily dressed; though he had evidently made the most of a rusty black coat, and wore his shirt-frill plaited and puffed out voluminously at the bosom.