adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an astonishing manner; to an astonishing degree; amazingly, surprisingly.

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1668.  Howe, Bless. Righteous, Wks. 1834, 227/2. Considerations that would render this astonishingly strange.

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1803.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., I. 744. Wherever bills of exchange originated, they are become astonishingly numerous.

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