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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB abandon ▪ But neither should it be formally abandoned until a more persuasive case could be made for doing so. ▪ As a result, in the 1987 Budget, the growth target for M3 was formally abandoned . ▪ At the congress ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "in good form, in an orderly manner," also "by kind," from formal + -ly (2). Meaning "in prescribed or customary form" is from 1560s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. with official authorization; "the club will be formally recognized" [syn: officially ] in a formal manner; "he was dressed rather formally" [syn: with formality ] [ant: informally ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a formal manner. 2 In accordance with official procedure. 3 In accordance with rigorous rules.
Usage examples of formally.
He suddenly remembered his station and more formally said, Besides, your Highness, we have a minor matter to finish discussing regarding the new border here in the West.
Shortly after Britain formally applied for membership in the European Common Market, a meeting of the Commonwealth Economic Con-, sultative Council was convened at Accra, in Ghana, to explore the difficulties to Commonwealth trade that might arise.
On February 26, 1782, the northern province of Friesland voted to instruct its delegates in the States-General to move formally to receive John Adams as minister from the United States.
It was Adams who formally welcomed the General and escorted him to the dais.
Formally, he was replying to the ideal of clear and harmonious beauty in the Tolstoy epic by affirming the possibility of a new aesthetics which could express modern chaos and complexity.
He is formally charged with the attempted murder of his owner and the actual murder of Amri Utasdatter, also a slave.
And in so doing he could make it appear - he, who, alone in Europe, had mastered the new technique of bloodless conquest, as the Anschluss and Munich had proved - that the President of Czechoslovakia had actually and formally asked for it.
The Appalachian Trail was formally completed on August 14, 1937, with the clearing of a two-mile stretch of woods in a remote part of Maine.
It also happened to have been proscribed, along with all other mind-ripping spellware, at the time the Union of Arcana was formally ratified.
Anticipating even then the loss of lower Burma, even before the Japanese had crossed the border, the Chinese formally requested Lend-Lease material to construct a road from Ledo in Assam across the mountains, forests and rivers of north Burma to tie in with the Burma Road on the Chinese side at Lungling.
The Saxon colonists in this state welcomed the Reformation, formally recognizing the Augsburg Confession in a synod of 1572.
But Benedick insists on being grim, and stalks off after insulting Claudio unmistakably and formally leaving the service of Don Pedro.
That meant that the Federal Biocontrol Authority had declared an outbreak and had formally assumed control over the situation.
I am formally declaring Emergency Fleet Law on Canis IV and directing an Earthquake Evacuation .
In a bull Regnans in Excelsis, which was to have a catastrophic effect on the fortunes of English Catholics, he formally excommunicated the English Queen and released her subjects from their allegiance to her.