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MIRACULOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does miraculously mean?
• MIRACULOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb MIRACULOUSLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: MIRACULOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a miraculous manner
Context example:
my hand grasped the gun that was, miraculously, lying on the ground beside my finger tips
Pertainym:
miraculous (being or having the character of a miracle)
Context examples
Miraculously, good-fortune Jupiter will be in a perfect position to help you from your income sector and so will action Mars and transformative Pluto—that is enormous planetary power.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
My own appetite came back miraculously.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I shall send, in time for your next issue, further details of the derelict ship which found her way so miraculously into harbour in the storm.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Miraculously, Neptune will be in ideal angle to good-fortune Jupiter, telling me you will have an amazing opportunity—something is coming up that will make you the buzz in all the right circles.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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