Definition of "greatly"
greatly
adverb
comparative greatlier or greater or more greatly, superlative greatliest or greatest or most greatly
Quotations
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
(archaic) Nobly; magnanimously.
Quotations
But all this our fisher, who was neither a poet, nor a dependent, did not know, so he concluded, that all who were truly great, were truly greatly minded, and noble in soul, as they were exalted by birth, and rich in splendour.
1823, Catherine George Ward, The Cottage on the Cliff: A Sea-side Story, page 251