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語源

From 中期英語 mightili (“with might, powerfully, strongly; forcefully, violently; greatly; etc.”), from 古期英語 meahtiglice (“with might, powerfully, mightily”), from meahtiġ, mihtiġ (“powerful, mighty”) + -līċe (suffix forming adverbs). Mihtiġ is derived from Proto-Germanic *mahtīgaz (“mighty”), from *mahtiz (“force, strength; ability, power”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”)) + *-gaz (suffix with the sense ‘being; doing; having’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, mighty +‎ -ly (suffix forming adverbs).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmaɪtɪli/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmaɪtɪli/, [-ɾɪ-]
• Homophone: Maithili
• ハイフネーション: might‧i‧ly

副詞

mightily (comparative more mightily, superlative most mightily)

1. In a mighty manner.

   Synonym: (obsolete) mightly

   1. (now literary) With much physical force, power, or strength; also, with divine or superhuman power or strength.

      Synonyms: (informal) mighty, strongly, powerfully; vigorously

      The chivalrous knights entered the lists and fought mightily.

      • 1804–1820 (date written), William Blake, “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, in Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, editors, The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical […], volume III, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], published 17 January 1893, →OCLC, page 18, lines 36–39:

        So cry Hand & Hyle the eldest of the fathers of Albions / Little-ones; to destroy the Divine Saviour: the Friend of Sinners. / Building Castles in desolated places, and strong Fortifications. / Soon Hand mightily devour'd & absorb'd Albions Twelve Sons.

      • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 303:

        [A] spirit as of prophecy had come upon him, constraining him to its purpose as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were constrained; […]

      • 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Tournament”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 111:

        And Bagdemagus's son Meliganus brake a spear upon Sir Gareth mightily and knightly.

      • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Beasts at Bay”, in The Beasts of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1916, →OCLC, page 34:

        But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bull-neck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass.

      • 1985, Jeanette Winterson, “Numbers”, in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, published September 1987, →ISBN, page 85:

        'The Lord is working mightily,' puffed Pastor Finch, smacking the bongos with his palms. 'Praise the Lord.'

   2. With much emotional, intellectual, or mental force or power; vehemently.
      • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 214, column 2:

        Sir, I ſhal not be ſlacke, in ſigne vvhereof / Pleaſe ye vve may contriue this afternoone, / And quaffe carovvſes to our Miſtreſſe health, / And do as aduerſaries do in lavv, / Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends.

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jonah 3:8, signature Gggg, recto, column 2:

        But let man and beaſt be couered with ſackecloth, and cry mightily vnto God: yea, let them turne euery one from his euill way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

      • 1886, John Ruskin, “Roslyn Chapel”, in Præterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life, volume I, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 421–422:

        I wonder mightily now what sort of a creature I should have turned out, if at this time Love had been with me instead of against me; […]

      • 2014 July 1, Bill Mears, “Supreme Court: Old Habits Die Hard”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 27 March 2025:

        The Supreme Court tried mightily to come together. […] But in the end came a familiar conservative–liberal split on the last, and perhaps most-watched case of the term ending this week.

   3. (prepositive, before an adjective or participial adjective) Of a characteristic: provided or present to a powerful or strong extent.
      • 1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Baiazet, Second of that Name, and Second Emperour of the Turkes”, in The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 459:

        [A]lthough he vvas a man mightely friended, yet vvas he by a publike decree baniſhed into one of the Abſyrtides, iſlan ds vpon the coaſt of Libvrnia.

      • 1898, Laurence Binyon, “[London Visions.] Songs of the World Unborn.”, in Porphyrion and Other Poems, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC, book, page 80:

        Time, O mighty and mightily peopled city, / Time is busy with thee.

   4. (now chiefly informal) To a great extent; extremely, greatly.

      Synonyms: enormously, (informal) mighty, much, very much; see also Thesaurus:extremely, Thesaurus:very

      He sounded mightily proud of himself.

      • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 159, column 2:

        Therein thou vvrong'ſt thy Children mightily.

      • 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 31:

        I [Aye], truely, ſir, I am mightily giuen to melancholy.

      • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature I2, recto:

        [I]t is prooued my Lady Hero hath bin falſely accuſde, the Prince [Don Pedro] and Claudio mightily abuſde, and Don Iohn is the author of all, vvho is fled and gone: […]

      • 1668 February 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 6th, 1667–1668”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VII, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1896, →OCLC, page 307:

        […] I to the Duke of York's playhouse; […] I sat mightily behind, and could see but little, and hear not all.

      • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Of the Abuse of Words”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book III, § 9, page 243:

        [T]his artificial Ignorance, and learned Gibberiſh, prevailed mightily in theſe laſt Ages, by the Intereſt and Artifice of thoſe, vvho found no eaſier vvay to that pitch of Authority and Dominion they have attained, than by amuſing the Men of Buſineſs, and Ignorant, vvith hard VVords, or employing the Ingenious and Idle in intricate Diſputes, about unintelligible Terms, and holding them perpetually entangled in that endleſs Labyrinth.

      • 1711 August 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “FRIDAY, August 10, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 140; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 231:

        When I am sick, I hear he says he is mightily concerned, but neither comes nor sends, because, as he tells his acquaintance with a sigh, he does not care to let me know all the power I have over him, and how impossible it is for him to live without me.

        The spelling has been modernized.

      • 1758 December 2 (date written), Thomas Gray, “[Letter] CLIX. To Thomas Wharton.”, in The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume III (Letters—II), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, page 388:

        I like mightily your proposal of insuring; but I thought, they would not do it for China, Glasses, or Linen.

      • 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter X, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 261:

        [M]iddle-aged nameless gentlemen of easy circumstances […] who lead a sort of facile, slipshod existence, doing nothing, yet mightily interested in what others do; […]

      • 1960 September, G[eoffrey] Freeman Allen, “I.C.I. Fertiliser Goes by Rail from Tees-side”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 533:

        The Billingham fertiliser traffic has grown mightily in the past few seasons.

      • 2015 September 1, Dawn Szymanski, Chandra Feltman, “The Psychological Toll of Being a Hooters Waitress”, in Business Insider‎, archived from the original on 27 March 2025:

        While casual-dining chains like Applebee's and Olive Garden are struggling mightily, many breastaurant chains reported 30% or more growth in the last few years.

   5. (obsolete) Put in place through the use of force or power.
      • 1863 June, “Rough Notes of a Ride to Babylon”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XCIII, number DLXXII, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 679, column 1:

        [T]his group of the lion and the man [a sculpture] now bear an unfinished, unwrought appearance, but you cannot look at it a moment, and not instantly avow the majesty and grandeur of the idea that once lay there so mightily embodied.

      • 1866, Lord de Tabley [i.e., John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley], “Philoctetes: A Metrical Drama”, in The Collected Poems of Lord de Tabley, London: Chapman & Hall, published 1903, →OCLC, page 166:

        O, mightily seated and / Throned are our masters, / And steadily rooted; […]

関連する語

• might
• mightly (obsolete)

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