vollends
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vollen, alternative form of Middle High German vol, with an unetymological -d- and suffixed with adverbial -s. Possibly influenced by vollenden, but not directly related to it.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]vollends
- completely, entirely
- Synonyms: vollkommen, völlig, vollständig, komplett
- Für 2D-Anwendungen reicht die Leistung jedoch vollends aus.
- For 2D applications, however, the performance is completely sufficient.
- 1987, John Goldsmith, Die Rückkehr zur Schatzinsel, vgs verlagsgesellschaft, Köln, page 89:
- Ein loderndes Feuer und der Duft des bratenden Truthahns erweckten uns vollends zu neuem Leben.
- A blazing fire and the scent of the roasting turkey requickened us entirely.
- (uncommon) especially, particularly
- 2010, Dietrich Esterl, “Erlebnispädagogik = erlebte Pädagogik”, in erziehungskunst 09/2010:
- Ich habe zum Beispiel immer vermieden, die Schüler zum Unterrichtsbeginn als Gruppe, gar mit einer Ziffer zu begrüßen, vollends, wenn ich nicht vorher jeden einzelnen begrüßt habe.
- I have, for instance, at the start of class, always avoided greeting the pupils [namelessly] as a group or even [solely] by number, especially when I haven't greeted each and every one [of them personally] before.
Further reading
[edit]- “vollends” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “vollends”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
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