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Strongly   /strˈɔŋli/   Listen
Strongly

adverb
1.
With strength or in a strong manner.  "He was strongly opposed to the government"
2.
In a powerful manner.  Synonym: powerfully.





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... strongly against new threats to our security. In the past four years, we agreed to ban—we led the way to a worldwide agreement to ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... determination we must be regulated. She came on the 17th, and Captain Hippon coming then ashore, we made ready to wait upon her, but were delayed, and informed that she would send for us next day. We strongly suspected the Hollanders of underhand dealings; and as no one came for us the next day, we sent to the sabandar, who made answer, that as the king had granted an exclusive privilege to the Hollanders, it was necessary for us to apply to his ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. • Robert Kerr
... before the Passover, as shown in the publicity of His entry into Jerusalem, His sharp rebukes of the rulers in the Temple, and in every other incident of those days. You remember His words to the betrayer: 'That thou doest, do quickly.' These latter hours of the Lord were strongly marked by the emotion to which He gave utterance in His earlier words: 'I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!' Perhaps that feeling indicated His human shrinking; ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren
... report, stating the terms upon which the Lacedaemonians were willing to make peace. Theramenes acted as spokesman, insisting that they ought to obey the Lacedaemonians and pull down the walls. A small minority raised their voice in opposition, but the majority were strongly in favour of the proposition, and the resolution was passed to accept the peace. After that, Lysander sailed into the Piraeus, and the exiles were readmitted. And so they fell to levelling the ...
— Hellenica • Xenophon
... might have liked to talk this labor question over with my intelligent hostess at any other time, my curiosity concerning her own history having been so strongly aroused, the topic seemed less interesting than usual, and I seized the opportunity given by an emphasized pause to bring her back to ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor


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