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fearfully adverb very, greatly UK, 1835 Dated but still familiar, especially in the works of P. G. Wodehouse.- [Victorian anatomist, Professor Richard] Owen invented the word “dinosaur” (“fearfully great lizard”), and the South Kensington institution he founded [The Natural History Museum] has dined out, as it were, on dinosaur bones, and prehistoric animatronics, ever since. — The Guardian, 26 November 2001
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