# majorally
## English
### Etymology

From major +‎ -ally.

### Adverb

majorally (not comparable)
* Synonym of majorly
** 1926 December 31, W. J. Rogan, “County Agent Looking Forward to 1927 With Hopes of Betterment”, in Wausau Daily Record-Herald, volume XX, number 26, Wausau, Wis., page sixteen, column 1:For the year 1927 certain projects on which minor stress has been laid in the past have become majorally important.
** 1931 February 19, Ted Gumesron, “From the Stands”, in The Haymaker, volume 22, number 20, Enid, Okla., page 3, column 3:Two weeks ago the game would not have been considered majorally important, but now that the Herd withstood and overthrew Tulsa university’s Hurricane the game will have a decided significance.
** 1940 October 28, “Livestock Sale”, in The Democrat and Leader, eighty-sixth year, number 12, Davenport, Iowa, page 13:Calves are majorally coming from the Nebraska Sandhills.
** 1941 November 5, “Sport Spatterings”, in Warren Times-Mirror, volume forty-two, Warren, Pa., page eight:Of course, some teams get away with a good brand of ball on bad field conditions, majorally slippery gridirons, and others just could never click on the same type of field if they practiced on one just like it all season long.
** 1943 November 23, H. Grady Walden, “Some War Disillusionments”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume CXV, number 327, Montgomery, Ala., page four, column 3:I am much perturbed over many things in the annals of life, majorally about the war, but strikes continue, the cost of living continues to soar, while earning capacities remain about the same amenic thing.
** 1951 September 19, “Curricula should mirror main aims”, in The Leader-Post, volume XLVII, number 220, Regina, Sask., page eighteen, column 2:The big problem of education is not entirely or perhaps even majorally in the schools.
** 1953 September 25, “Houtzdale Convent Re-opens; County’s First Lay Catechist Training Center”, in The Progress, volume 47, number 226, Clearfield, Pa., page six, column 1:The quartet of St. Joseph Sisters will motor throughout the area, setting up instruction centers for the boys and girls majorally bereft of Catholic school education.
** 1958 December 22, “4th of Parish Pledges Paid”, in The News-Herald, 81st year, number 22,448, Franklin, Pa., Oil City, Pa., page 13, column 5:At the present rate it is likely that the pledges will be majorally paid in two years instead of three.
** 1967 December 17, Stewart Allen, “Back to the Land Go American Movies”, in The Arizona Republic, 78th year, number 215, Phoenix, Ariz., page M-5, column 6:While we are fighting a war in Vietnam that is too obtuse to be majorally understood, maybe we will go to Cool Hand and Flim-Flam for smaller, less metallic wars, waged on a clearer, more soluble battlefield.
** 1974 September 17, Roy Moorehead, “Discipline eroded”, in The Times, 69th year, number 78, page 13, column 6:During my years at Morton the entire staff was made up of majorally fine, decent folk, trying their dead level best to do a good job under increasingly difficult circumstances.
** 1974 December 19, “BHS economics students get reply from President”, in The Belleville Times/News, volume 66, number 2, Belleville, N.J., page 3:The letter although prepared by the entire class, was majorally composed by Janet Lilore with Michael Fortino serving as it’s overall coordinator.
** 1993 May 7, “Venom Line”, in Daily Press, 98th year, number 127, Newport News, Va., page 13, column 3:To the guy who introduces the Venom Line, you sound majorally constipated, but I hear Ex-lax is really cheap at Rite Aid.
** 1994 April 22, Jim Darr, “A real, clear down-to-Earth holiday greeting”, in News Herald, page A4:It’s difficult to make a cause of something in which we already majorally believe.