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Answer for the clue "With a passion ", 9 letters:
intensely

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Word definitions for intensely in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intensely \In*tense"ly\, adv. Intently. [Obs.] --J. Spencer. To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in an intense manner; "he worked intensely"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an intense manner. 2 To an intense degree, extremely.

Usage examples of intensely.

Admiral Cuomo was something of a help because he had engaged the Arusha woman and me in animated small talk about his favorite subject, ice hockey, about which he supposed us intensely curious because of our lack of exposure to the sport.

The confreries provided a context of life that was intensely sociable, with the solace and sometimes the abrasions that sociability implies.

The silkiness of melting chocolate on his tongue reminds him of the music of Angelo Badalamenti, and the music of Badalamenti brings to mind the waxy surface of a scarlet anthurium, and the anthurium sparks an intensely sensual recollection of the cool taste and crispness of cornichons, which for several seconds completely overwhelms the actual taste of the chocolate.

But Tiresias heard these shrieks, he saw the sights unholy and ungainly and because of this he sobbed intensely as he continued his shuffling sort of shamble through a Dantean picaresque blindness of pine trees and live oaks grappling in animated splendor with his very soul.

Usually, they accepted their demotion with grace, glad to remain part of the pack, sometimes moving into another pack where the loss of their former status might not sting as intensely.

Without a doubt, fighting for some couples is a form of foreplay, which leads to intensely satisfying sex.

They were all intensely curious but all, even the children, remarkably discreet: yet at one point Stephen noticed a tall, martial man leave a group of Catholic Ghegs and come deliberately towards them, twirling his moustache with a hand adorned with a magnificent amethyst: he had two silver-mounted pistols in the belt of what looked very like a cassock and a musket or perhaps a fowling-piece - no, a musket -over his shoulder, a pectoral cross showing beneath its butt.

So the grubs and their allies-the few that remained-grew intensely paranoid and watchful for the signs of new life.

Descent to the main gundeck revealed that they were blocked off from most of it by a smoldering, intensely smoky fire, so they all continued downward to the lower gundeck.

Westerners are intensely disturbed at the mere suggestion of an existence after death: devout Christians, in particular, react with an emotion akin to revulsion in spite of giving lip service to it in their religious beliefs.

When they stopped, the first man, sweating intensely in the hot room, broke off a bit of kaoline, chewed some, and marked his forehead with the rest.

His favored glamour is that of an intensely sexual Highland blacksmith with a powerful rippling body, golden skin, long black hair, and dark, mesmerizing eyes Highly intelligent, lethally seductive.

Their intensely cherished preconceptions respecting the Messiah, their persecution and crucifixion of Jesus, the glaring inconsistency of his teachings and experience with most that they expected, these things compelled their incredulity to every proof of the Messiahship of the contemned and murdered Nazarene.

Jed brought Gari and Navar, who were intensely curious, twittering together as they walked down the length of the corridor.

T-team would likely find itself having to use nontraditional weapons at close range to resist a numerically superior force - a job for the toughest, calmest, and most intensely focused troops available.