mountainously

English

Etymology

mountainous +‎ -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

Adverb

mountainously (comparative more mountainously, superlative most mountainously)

  1. In a mountainous manner.
    • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 3:
      Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length,
      Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie,
      And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;

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