adv. [f. STRIKING ppl. a. + -LY2.] In a striking manner or degree.

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1752.  W. Dodd, Beauties Shaks. (1757), I. 114. Caliban’s Exultation … has something in it very strikingly in Character.

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1817.  Malthus, Popul., III. 166. The reasonings of the foregoing chapter have been strikingly confirmed by the events of the last two or three years.

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1854.  Grace Greenwood, Haps & Mishaps, 129. The scenery of Ayr is not grand, surely, nor strikingly picturesque; but [etc.].

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1888.  W. J. Sollas, in Challenger Rep., XXV. 212. The canal system presents a strikingly open appearance.

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