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Heavily
Pronunciation : Heav"i*ly
Part of Speech : adv.
Etymology : [From 2d Heavy.]
Definition : 1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century.
2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully. And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily. Ex. xiv. 25. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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