resoundingly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English resounding Middle English -ly English -ly English resoundingly From resounding + -ly.

1. With a loud, resonant sound.

   “The bells tolled resoundingly.”

   “The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going.”

2. Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.

   “The children resoundingly defeated the bully.”

   “My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because un-often summoned from silence.”