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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
signally
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Conventional ideas have signally failed to deal with new developments in technology.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Demographic pressures were signally important in producing change in the educational system.
▪ Except for the historians and the sociologists of knowledge, the process of getting there is signally uninteresting.
▪ The ordinance signally failed to arrest the concentration of ownership which developed apace from 1951.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Signally

Signally \Sig"nal*ly\, adv. In a signal manner; eminently.

Wiktionary
signally

adv. In a signal manner; conspicuously

WordNet
signally
  1. adv. as a signal; "a term that is used signally rather than symbolically"

  2. in a signal manner; "signally inappropriate methods" [syn: unmistakably, remarkably]

Usage examples of "signally".

Lear signally exemplified, through every phase of passion, that temperance which should give it smoothness.

Mehevi sought to enlighten my ignorance, but he failed as signally as when he had endeavoured to initiate me into the perplexing arcana of the taboo.

Ferdinand of Brunswick bestirred himself, defeated the French signally at Krefeld, and drove them headlong across the Rhine.

I had taught her last night a few substitutes in the softest tongue I knew for those words of natural tenderness in which her language is signally deficient: taught her to understand them, certainly not to use them, for it was long before I could even induce her to address me by name.

As I approached the house, I was strongly inclined to turn back, for I felt what a desperate attempt it was to make an impression on Mr. Skimpole and how extremely likely it was that he would signally defeat me.

Bund or confederation, like the Swiss or German Bund, similar to what the secessionists in the United States so recently attempted and have so signally failed to establish.

When I shall go back to the splendid commonwealth that has so signally honored me beyond my merits, I want to be able to say to the people that all the great doctrines we have advocated for years, have been made possible by your action.

I don't know who the Bryson was whom this town was so signally honoring, but I had certainly never seen my name spread around so lavishly, and I regretted that I hadn't brought a crowbar and monkey wrench because many of the signs would have made splendid keepsakes.

The major was a great invalid, and had a separate room, but seldom essaying to perform his marital duties, and signally failing when he did try.

How striking also were the wonders done by Moses to rescue God’s people from the yoke of slavery in Egypt, when the magi of the Pharaoh, that is, the king of Egypt, who tyrannized over this people, were suffered to do some wonderful things that they might be vanquished all the more signally!