Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PROD'I-GAL-LY
PROD'I-GAL-LY, adv.
- With profusion of expenses; extravagantly; lavishly; wastefully; as, an estate prodigally dissipated.
- With liberal abundance; profusely. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows, / Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. – Dryden.
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