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Definition of Sweepingly
1. Adverb. In a sweeping manner. "He sweepingly condemned the entire population of the country for the war crimes"
Definition of Sweepingly
1. Adverb. In an encompassing manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sweepingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweepingly
Literary usage of Sweepingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1914)
"He could not stand the suburbs—poor man, he came to spending suburban summers in
the end—and of them all he held Germantown most sweepingly in disfavour. ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1885)
"Now the reason that, as between these two men, the judgment jn material matters
of the one is apt to be too sweepingly trusted, of the other too sweepingly ..."
3. The Clothing Industry in New York by Jesse Eliphalet Pope (1905)
"It is a serious question indeed, whether all home-work should be so sweepingly
condemned, and all so-called factory work so sweepingly commended. ..."
4. The Theory of Practice: An Ethical Enquiry, in Two Books by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1870)
"They have denied too sweepingly the metaphysical truths contained in the ontology
which they rejected, affirmed too sweepingly the ..."
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