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Passionately

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.

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passionately

adv. In a passionate manner.

WordNet
passionately
  1. adv. with passion; "she kissed him passionately"

  2. in a stormy or violent manner [syn: stormily, turbulently]

Usage examples of "passionately".

American blurted passionately, spitting a mouthful of blood and broken enamel onto the floor.

Anderson, while he stayed, so passionately accompanied her, that he was often on the very point of mentioning the circumstance of the robbery.

I had chastised Lucy in every manner, playfully, pedantically, paternally, militarily, passionately, dispassionately, and in every tempo, allegro, largo, andante, di minuetto, with every paddle, strap, pliant rod, and whip in every room in my house, as she presented her fanny, bared or lightly covered, while lying across my knees, kneeling on beds, couches, chairs, footstools, or as she crawled upstairs, for one smack of my belt on each step, or bending over tables, desks, sinks, tubs, toilets, kitchen work surfaces, washing machine and dryer, followed by all the permutations of sensual penetration.

Americans and their foreign informants passionately misconceive together.

And now, while she spied and probed and sniffed the wind around Drax for her Chief in London, she was passionately concerned with the success of the Moonraker and had become as dedicated to its service as anyone else on the site.

They went out of the Goodwill to find Munn arguing passionately with Jorust, who had come in person to examine the X-ray machine.

Kentish downs there--though if he was not actor, he would behold, through the paneless windows, nothing but Toni Titmus, in dirty linen overalls, sitting on a kitchen chair in front of a melancholy pile of furniture all on end, humped up over the play script, and passionately attacking gum.

French perfectly, played the piano admirably, and was passionately fond of reading.

Monk cut across him, his voice sharp with anger at Runcorn for prejudging him, at Dalgarno for being greedy, dishonest and cruel, and at Katrina for loving so passionately a man unworthy of her, or of anyone.

He kissed her long and passionately, his mouth searing and bruising with its insistence.

Like most of their people, Marr and Senn were passionately devoted to each other, and to all other things of beauty.

This did not mean subjectivism, or religious autonomy, for the Reformers held passionately to an ideal of objective truth, but it did mean that every soul had the right to make its personal account with God, without mediation of priest or sacrament.

Theos, gazing full at him, became suddenly filled with pity and anxiety,--he passionately longed to assure him that there was in very truth a future higher and happier existence,--he, Theos, would vouch for the fact!

Lillian, was a complexity: she had grown up in a house of New England Transcendentalists and passionately pursued the riches of interior life.

After the battlefield surgeons had been so successful with the fresh tank-grown organs provided by Tuk Keedair, Serena had spoken passionately about the services and resources the Unallied Planets such as Tlulaxa could provide.