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Webster 1913 Edition


Passionately

Pas′sion-ate-ly

,
adv.
1.
In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.
Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and
passionately
.
South.
2.
Angrily; irascibly.
Locke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Passionately

PAS'SIONATELY

,
adv.
With passion; with strong feeling; ardently; vehemently; as, to covet any thing passionately; to be passionately fond.
1.
Angrily; with vehement resentment; as, to speak passionately.

Definition 2024


passionately

passionately

English

Adverb

passionately (comparative more passionately, superlative most passionately)

  1. In a passionate manner.
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace:
      “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. []
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallwayand halted amazed.

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