resoundingly

Etymology

resounding + -ly

adv

  1. With a loud, resonant sound.
    The bells tolled resoundingly.
    "Let him return and be damned!" shouted Giles, slapping Marge's fat haunch resoundingly. "He may be lord of the keep, but at present we are keepers of the cellar! More ale! Agnes, you little slut, another song!" 1939, Robert E. Howard, Gates of Empire
  2. (by extension) 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. 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “ch. 5”, in Autobiography of a Yogi

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