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Weightily   Listen
adverb
Weightily  adv.  In a weighty manner.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Weightily" Quotes from Famous Books



... organic nature thus incontestably lends itself to a natural arrangement of group subordinate to group, when due regard is paid to degrees of anatomical resemblance—this mere fact of itself tells so weightily in favour of descent with progressive modification in different lines, that even if it stood alone it would be entitled to rank as one of our strongest pieces of evidence. But, as we have seen, it does not stand alone. ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes

... think so. This enthusiasm, infusing itself through the calmness of his character, and thus taking an aspect of settled thought and wisdom, would serve to keep his youth pure, and make his aspirations high. And when, with the years settling down more weightily upon him, his early faith should be modified by inevitable experience, it would be with no harsh and sudden revolution of his sentiments. He would still have faith in man's brightening destiny, and perhaps love ...
— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... weightily—he might have been an eminent geologist giving his opinion of the conglomerate of the Rand banket, or Agricola elucidating his theory of vein formation—"in my opinion the gold found in this deposit was derived from the disintegration of gold-bearing rocks and veins ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart



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