significantly, adv.
(sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a significant manner; so as to convey some meaning; expressively, meaningly.
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 445 He doth more significantly expres his meaning in that which followeth. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 75 Therefore Terence did significantly describe a good servant by the name of Dromo. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. §33 To write with a Needle and Thred..so that one stitch shall significantly shew any letter. 1738 tr. Guazzo's Art Convers. 107 There are many who have a good Invention, yet want to express themselves significantly. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. I. 321 There are those [waters]..that are significantly called mineral and medicinal. 1801 C. Smith Lett. Solit. Wand. I. 307 They looked significantly at each other. 1877 Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. vi. 69 An embassy was despatched to Rome, John of Oxford..being significantly one of its members. |