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STRIKINGLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a striking manner
Example:
the evidence was strikingly absent
Classified under:
Pertainym:
striking (sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect)
Context examples:
And it is not merely the house—the grounds, I assure you, as far as I could observe, are strikingly like.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Their taste was strikingly alike.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right—which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman's house to be seen excepting one—to be presumed the Parsonage—within a stone's throw of the said knoll and church.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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