"handsomely" meaning in English

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          "text": "a handsomely brooding man",
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          "text": "I was handsomely rewarded for my part in tracking down the thief.",
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        "Generously (especially with regards money)."
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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 73:",
          "text": "Still, he tucked in handsomely to bacon and tomato on fried bread, felicitating himself on the considered wisdom of his arrival in the character of guest to Bradly.",
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          "ref": "1960 February, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:",
          "text": "The through Moorgate service has been most handsomely speeded up, and suburban trains in both directions now run non-stop between Kings Cross (Underground) and Elstree.",
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        "Impressively, thoroughly; vigorously."
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        "Carefully; in shipshape style; without undue haste."
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        "(nautical) Carefully; in shipshape style; without undue haste."
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