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Miraculously

Miraculous \Mi*rac"u*lous\, a. [F. miraculeux. See Miracle.]

  1. Of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.

  2. Supernatural; wonderful.

  3. Wonder-working. ``The miraculous harp.''
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Mi*rac"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Mi*rac"u*lous*ness, n.

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miraculously

adv. In a miraculous manner.

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miraculously

adv. in a miraculous manner; "my hand grasped the gun that was, miraculously, lying on the ground beside my finger tips"

Usage examples of "miraculously".

One wall of the ablutions area changed miraculously into a mirror and she saw them both reflected in it.

StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.

Miraculously unbroken despite the changes in acceleration, its weight was impossible to guess in the microgravity of the ship, but its mass was pleasing.

They will welcome the chance to rally behind the Aeleding himself, Atheling Radgar, the lost heir miraculously returned to us.

He would not after all be lucky enough to sit under that oak on that dreamed hillside someday with a miraculously saved Weed Atman, in some 1980s world of the future.

It is this abnormal historic-mindedness of the primal race--a chance circumstance operating, through coincidence, miraculously in our favor--which made the carvings so awesomely informative to us, and which caused us to place their photography and transcription above all other considerations.

Once more Bink had lucked out: he was miraculously untouched by either hoof or needles.

The girls led them up four steep, very long flights of creaking wooden stairs and guided them through a doorway into their own wonderful and resplendent tenement apartment, which burgeoned miraculously with an infinite and proliferating flow of supple young naked girls and contained the evil and debauched ugly old man who irritated Nately constantly with his caustic laughter and the clucking, proper old woman in the ash-gray woolen sweater who disapproved of everything immoral that occurred there and tried her best to tidy up.

Bakkat had concocted a balm of eland fat and wild herbs for her that was proving almost miraculously efficacious.

Thrown in the air by some unknown power, he rose ten feet above the surface of the lake, fell again into the midst of the agitated waters, and then soon gained the shore, without any severe wounds, miraculously saved.

Even more miraculously, the table slab had missed us when it was blown back into the groggery by the hurricane and shattered into a dozen pieces.

There they were met by a motley horde of fugitives from Gae itself, braver, or more foolish, or more conservative souls who had hung on in the looted ruin of the capital, hoping that the danger would somehow miraculously pass.

And if it had somehow, miraculously, worked, why, then they and he would have been numbered amongst the greatest heroes of the Mercatorial Age.

Miraculously, the roof had not caved in completely, entombing him in these reeking sewers with the lurking horror he had just escaped.

They breakfasted, therefore, near the Chimneys, and during their repast, as may be supposed, nothing was talked of but the event which had so miraculously saved the colony.