DOUBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doubly mean? 

• DOUBLY (adverb)
  The adverb DOUBLY has 2 senses:

1. to double the degree

2. in a twofold manner

  Familiarity information: DOUBLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To double the degree

Synonyms:

double; doubly; twice

Context example:

his eyes were double bright

Pertainym:

double (twice as great or many)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a twofold manner

Synonyms:

doubly; in two ways

Context example:

he was doubly wrong

 Context examples 

Poor dear, I've no doubt it frets her to be kept in the dark, and it may make her doubly anxious about me and the others.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If your birthday falls on one of these two day or within five days of these dates, you will be doubly touched.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This was doubly resented, even triply resented.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It is on her account that attention to Randalls is doubly due, and she must doubly feel the omission.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one’s self, and doubly so for a friend.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Should the scheme he had now sketched prove feasible, Silver, already doubly a traitor, would not hesitate to adopt it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Your age and appearance make your support doubly valuable.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He gave us to understand that in our children we lived again, and that, under the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, any accession to their number was doubly welcome.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was doubly amazed that he had been in the Hawaiian Islands, whither she had migrated from the Azores with her people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Our misfortune is doubly hard to us; we have not only lost that lovely darling boy, but this poor girl, whom I sincerely love, is to be torn away by even a worse fate.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)