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Definition of Momentously
1. Adverb. In a momentous way.
Definition of Momentously
1. Adverb. In a momentous manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Momentously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Momentously
Literary usage of Momentously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Documents: Portraits and Biographies of Eminent Men by Herbert Spencer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Everett Hale, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Hamlin Garland, Robert Barr (1895)
"There were hours of night when he often had to decide—to decide, of course, with
great swiftness—between two or more courses of action momentously different ..."
2. Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1894)
"The delegates thus momentously assembled, when they came to choose the officer
who was to wield over them a power as great as that of the Speaker over the ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"To a momentous degree; with important effect or influence: as, this engagement
bore momentously on the course of the war. =Syn. ..."
4. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1904)
"What little else was said between them upon this early morning shall be told duly.
For this visit in its own good time did count momentously, though both ..."
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