prodigiously

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin prōdigiōsusbor. Middle English prodigious English prodigious Middle English -ly English -ly English prodigiously From prodigious + -ly.

1. In a prodigious manner; astonishingly, enormously, impressively, wonderfully.

   “[T]he Mercers encreaſing prodigiouſly vvent back into the City; there like Bees unhiv'd they hover about a vvhile, not knovving vvhere to fix; but at laſt, as if they vvould come back to the old Hive in Pater-noſter Rovv, but could not be admitted, the ſvvarm ſettled on Lu[d]gate-hill.”

   “The Dashwoods were so prodigiously delighted with the Middletons, that, though not much in the habit of giving any thing, they determined to give them—a dinner; […]”