Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MON'STROUS-LY
MON'STROUS-LY, adv.
- In a manner out of the common order of nature; hence, shockingly; terribly; hideously; horribly; as, a man monstrously wicked.
- To a great degree; enormously; extravagantly. Who with his wife is monstrously in love. Dryden
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