marvelously

marvelously

English

Etymology

    From marvelous + -ly.

    Adverb

    marvelously (comparative more marvelously, superlative most marvelously)

    1. Alternative form of marvellously.
      • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132:
        With a vicious lunge the elephant swerved to the right to dispose of this temerarious foeman who dared intervene between himself and his intended victim; but he had not reckoned on the lightning quickness that could galvanize those steel muscles into action so marvelously swift as to baffle even a keener eyesight than Tantor’s.