Adverb

(en-adv)

In a widespread or large manner.

For the most part; mainly or chiefly.

*

Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

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On a large scale; amply.

* 1913 ,

Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .

*:"Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.

(obsolete) Fully, at great length.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.

Adverb

(en adverb)

In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.

* {{quote-book, year=1853, author=Fredrika Bremer, title=The Home, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Miles Franklin, title=My Brilliant Career, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met. }}

* {{quote-news, year=1989, date=April 7, author=Kurt Jacobsen, title=Losing It, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it. }}