mightly
/ˈmaɪt li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
adv
Very.
Example Sentences
- "King Haco would have ſtay'd, notwithstanding the mightly Power he had to encounter, […]"
- "[…] and the mightly arm of Alcher ſent him like a lion howling among the members of the dead."
- "Antilochus joined his grief to their tears: he held the mightly hand of Achilles; for deep he groaned from his inmoſt ſoul."
- "Month after month law-suits, instigated by the grasping white man against the helpless Indian are decided in favor of the mightly and unscrupulous white."
- "In touching upon these mightly results, which must attend, or soon follow, the completion of Welland Canal, [...]"
- "Mightly indeed must be the Titanic current of that soul which could receive one whole human, full of thoughts, affections, and emotions, into its tide and yet remain uncoloured and unchanged."
Etymology
From Middle English mightli, myȝtly, from Old English mihtelīċ (“possible, able, capable”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahtilīk, from Proto-Germanic *mahtilīkaz, *mahtulīkaz, equivalent to might + -ly. Cognate with Swedish maktlig (“powerful”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mightli, mihtelīċ, *mahtilīk, *mahtilīkaz, myghtely, mihtlīċe
Inflected Forms
more mightly (comparative)
most mightly (superlative)