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Acutely

adverb

In an acute manner. "Acutely aware"

Having a rapid onset. Antonym: chronically.

Changing suddenly in direction and degree. Synonyms: sharp, sharply. "Turn sharp left here" , "The visor was acutely peaked" , "Her shoes had acutely pointed toes"

In a shrewd manner. Synonyms: astutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly. "He was acutely insightful"

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... and I think a like meeting of French and Italian scholars would indorse the verdict. "Gibbon's work will never be excelled," declared Niebuhr.[49] "That great master of us all," said Freeman, "whose immortal tale none of us can hope to displace."[50] Bury, the latest editor of Gibbon, who has acutely criticised and carefully weighed "The Decline and Fall," concludes "that Gibbon is behind date in many details. But in the main things he is still our master, above and beyond date."[51] His work wins plaudits from ...

— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes

... easy chair opposite him was a fat European in a tight white linen suit buttoned up to the neck. He evidently felt the heat acutely, and with a large coloured handkerchief he incessantly wiped his red face, down which the sweat rolled in oily drops, and ...

— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly

... If the government, acutely sensible that war is an evil which must cripple its resources, is unwilling to engage in it, both from principle and from patriotism, it must yield if the mob wills it, or forfeit the sweets of office and ...

— Canada and the Canadians - Volume I • Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle

... righteous acts recently committed will more acutely affect the present waking mind than those enacted at a more remote period. In a similar way future disaster or success which is soon to occur will impress the dream mind more vividly than those which are to transpire at a later date. But in the lives of all men there are past incidents which ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... whole; the outer surface is covered with keeled scales, which are largest towards its centre; the inner surface is quite smooth. The scales of the back are oval, smoothish; those of the lower part of the body and upper part of the legs acutely mid-ribbed, and of the sides and joints of the limbs minute. The tail is twice as long as the body, roundish, covered with acutely mid-ribbed scales, which towards the end form six rows, so as to render it obscurely six-sided; the end is blunt: ...

— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King

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