Mightily Meaning

/ˈmaɪtɪli/
B2

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advIn a mighty manner.

advIn a mighty manner., With much physical force, power, or strength; also, with divine or superhuman power or strength.

He strove mightily to overcome his addiction to heroin.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The workers struggled ____ every day to finish the project well before the deadline.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young boy struggled ____ to lift the heavy box of old toys, but eventually, he had to ask his older brother for help.

From Middle English mightili (“with might, powerfully, strongly; forcefully, violently; greatly; etc.”), from Old English meahtiglice (“with might, powerfully, mightily”), from meahtiġ, mihtiġ (“powerful, mighty”) + -līċe (suffix forming adverbs). Mihtiġ is derived from Proto-Germanic *mahtīgaz (“mighty”), from *mahtiz (“force, strength; ability, power”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”)) + *-gaz (suffix with the sense ‘being; doing; having’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, mighty + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).

"So cry Hand & Hyle the eldest of the fathers of Albions / Little-ones; to destroy the Divine Saviour: the Friend of Sinners. / Building Castles in desolated places, and strong Fortifications. / Soon Hand mightily devour'd & absorb'd Albions Twelve Sons." — 1804–1820 (date written), William Blake, “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, in Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, editors, The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical […], volume III, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], published 17 January 1893, →OCLC, page 18, lines 36–39:
"[A] spirit as of prophecy had come upon him, constraining him to its purpose as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were constrained; […]" — 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 303:
"And Bagdemagus's son Meliganus brake a spear upon Sir Gareth mightily and knightly." — 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Tournament”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 111:
"But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bull-neck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass." — 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Beasts at Bay”, in The Beasts of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1916, →OCLC, page 34:
"'The Lord is working mightily,' puffed Pastor Finch, smacking the bongos with his palms. 'Praise the Lord.'" — 1985, Jeanette Winterson, “Numbers”, in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, published September 1987, →ISBN, page 85:

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The workers struggled ____ every day to finish the project well before the deadline.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young boy struggled ____ to lift the heavy box of old toys, but eventually, he had to ask his older brother for help.

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