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English
Etymology
From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Adverb
mountainously (comparative more mountainously, superlative most mountainously)
- 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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