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.

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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-adv)

In a high or esteemed manner.

Extremely; greatly; very much.

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.