英语词汇“portentously”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

portentously

释义

porˈtentously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly².]
In a portentous manner; in a way that portends or foreshadows something unusual; hence (loosely) prodigiously, extraordinarily, astonishingly.
1656Trapp Comm. 2 Thess. ii. 3 That breathing devil, so portentously, so peerlessly vicious.1755Warburton Div. Legat. (ed. 4) I. ii. iv. 246 Creatures, which by a reciprocal translation of the parts to one another, became all portentously deformed.1816Scott Antiq. vii, The distant sea..lay almost portentously still.1858Buckle Civiliz. (1869) II. viii. 468 The decline was portentously rapid.1872Morley Voltaire i. (1886) 9 Portentously significant silence.1882Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xviii, He would be portentously severe against very trifling shortcomings.

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