AFFECTIONATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affectionately mean? 

• AFFECTIONATELY (adverb)
  The adverb AFFECTIONATELY has 1 sense:

1. with affection

  Familiarity information: AFFECTIONATELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFECTIONATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With affection

Synonyms:

affectionately; dear; dearly

Context example:

he treats her affectionately

Pertainym:

affectionate (having or displaying warmth or affection)

 Context examples 

At last she said, putting out her hand, and laying it affectionately on the hand of her old servant, Peggotty, dear, you are not going to be married?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This amiable spirit was felt at once, and both aunts 'my deared' her affectionately, looking what they afterward said emphatically, "That child improves every day."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Collins welcomed her friend with the liveliest pleasure, and Elizabeth was more and more satisfied with coming when she found herself so affectionately received.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He glanced affectionately about him at his few books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I am a poor man,” said he, as he patted it affectionately, and thrust it into the depths of his inner pocket.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He described one Miss Elliot, and I thought very affectionately of the other.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She took them all most affectionately by the hand, and expressed great delight in seeing them again.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“I think the man who could often quarrel with Fanny,” said Edmund affectionately, “must be beyond the reach of any sermons.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Emma hung about him affectionately, and smiled, and said it must be so; and that he must not class her with Isabella and Mrs. Weston, whose marriages taking them from Hartfield, had, indeed, made a melancholy change: but she was not going from Hartfield; she should be always there; she was introducing no change in their numbers or their comforts but for the better; and she was very sure that he would be a great deal the happier for having Mr. Knightley always at hand, when he were once got used to the idea.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Some conversation took place between him and his father, and the young stranger knelt at the old man’s feet and would have kissed his hand, but he raised her and embraced her affectionately.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)