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DOUBLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To double the degree
Example:
his eyes were double bright
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Pertainym:
double (twice as great or many)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a twofold manner
Example:
he was doubly wrong
Synonyms:
doubly; in two ways
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Context examples:
My peace of mind is doubly involved in it;—for not only is it horrible to suspect a person, who has been what HE has been to ME, of such designs,—but what must it make me appear to myself?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Fanny was doubly silenced here; though when the moment was passed, could regret that she had not forced herself into the acknowledged comprehension of one half of his meaning, and encouraged him to say something more of his sister and Edmund.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retailing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Oona made no effort to hide her surprise and chagrin that Ivan was not dead, but went on: In the day I saw thee a coward; in the night, when all men fought, even the boys not yet hunters, I saw thee not and knew thee doubly a coward.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Laying her head on her arms, Jo wet her little romance with a few happy tears, for she had thought that no one saw and appreciated her efforts to be good, and this assurance was doubly precious, doubly encouraging, because unexpected and from the person whose commendation she most valued.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Yet here, day after day for an hour after nones, and for an hour before vespers, he found himself in close communion with three maidens, all young, all fair, and all therefore doubly dangerous from the monkish standpoint.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl’s short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off other lovers by making love himself.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That means business will be brisk, good news for every Gemini and doubly so if you are self-employed.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
When Frank left us, continued he, it was quite uncertain when we might see him again, which makes this day's news doubly welcome.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
